The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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Pàgina 13
... first fight , fo I instantly got into it , and finding it in tolerable harmony with my feelings , I ordered the waiter to call Monfieur Deffein , the mafter of the hôtel - but Monfieur Deffein being gone to vespers , and not caring to ...
... first fight , fo I instantly got into it , and finding it in tolerable harmony with my feelings , I ordered the waiter to call Monfieur Deffein , the mafter of the hôtel - but Monfieur Deffein being gone to vespers , and not caring to ...
Pàgina 18
... first tranfplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope ( obferve he was a Dutchman ) ne- ver dreamt of drinking the fame wine at the Cape , that the fame grape produced upon the French mountains - he was too phlegmatic for ...
... first tranfplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope ( obferve he was a Dutchman ) ne- ver dreamt of drinking the fame wine at the Cape , that the fame grape produced upon the French mountains - he was too phlegmatic for ...
Pàgina 22
... from thence but a vampt- up business at the first , though it had been twice taken to pieces on Mount Sennis , it had not profited much by its adventures - but by none fo little as the standing 22 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
... from thence but a vampt- up business at the first , though it had been twice taken to pieces on Mount Sennis , it had not profited much by its adventures - but by none fo little as the standing 22 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
Pàgina 38
... first preffing it to my lips : the blood and fpirits , which had fuffered a revulfion from her , crowded back to her , as I did it . Now the two travellers , who had spoke to me in the coach - yard , hap- pened at that crifis to be ...
... first preffing it to my lips : the blood and fpirits , which had fuffered a revulfion from her , crowded back to her , as I did it . Now the two travellers , who had spoke to me in the coach - yard , hap- pened at that crifis to be ...
Pàgina 40
... first im- pulfe , and therefore feldom listen to thefe cabals , which ferve no purpose , that I know of , but to encompass the heart with adamant - I turn'd inftantly about to the lady- -But he had glided off unperceiv- ed , as the ...
... first im- pulfe , and therefore feldom listen to thefe cabals , which ferve no purpose , that I know of , but to encompass the heart with adamant - I turn'd inftantly about to the lady- -But he had glided off unperceiv- ed , as the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 137 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement...
Pàgina 137 - I saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years the -western breeze had not once fanned his blood — he had •seen no sun, no moon in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice —his children — — But here my heart began to bleed — and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Pàgina 132 - Make the most of it you can, said I to myself, the Bastile is but another word for a tower ;— and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of. — Mercy on the gouty ! for they are in it twice a year. — But with nine livres a day, and pen and ink and paper and patience, albeit a man can't get out, he may do very well within...
Pàgina 220 - Shorn indeed ! and to the quick," said I ; " and wast thou in my own land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread, and drink of my own cup.
Pàgina 136 - I took a single captive; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Pàgina 133 - I looked up and down the passage, and seeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention. In my return back through the passage, I heard the same words repeated twice over; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage: " I can't get out, I can't get out,
Pàgina 220 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Pàgina 224 - ... mere pomp of words! but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself all comes from thee, great great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation...
Pàgina 89 - I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.