The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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Pàgina 7
... given in a few strokes ; one might put it into the hands of any one to defign , for ' twas neither elegant or otherwife , but as cha- racter and expreffion made it fo : it was a thin , fpare form , fomething above the common fize , if ...
... given in a few strokes ; one might put it into the hands of any one to defign , for ' twas neither elegant or otherwife , but as cha- racter and expreffion made it fo : it was a thin , fpare form , fomething above the common fize , if ...
Pàgina 12
... given twenty li- vres for an advocate - I have behaved very ill , faid I within myfelf ; but I have only just fet out upon my travels ; and fhall learn better manners as I get along . THE DESOBLIGEANT . WHEN CALAIS . HEN a man is ...
... given twenty li- vres for an advocate - I have behaved very ill , faid I within myfelf ; but I have only just fet out upon my travels ; and fhall learn better manners as I get along . THE DESOBLIGEANT . WHEN CALAIS . HEN a man is ...
Pàgina 69
... given him , he may judge within a livre or two what was the precife fum . I could afford nothing for the rest , but Dieu vous beniffe - Et le bon Dieu vous beniffe encore - faid the old foldier , the dwarf , & c . The pauvre honteux ...
... given him , he may judge within a livre or two what was the precife fum . I could afford nothing for the rest , but Dieu vous beniffe - Et le bon Dieu vous beniffe encore - faid the old foldier , the dwarf , & c . The pauvre honteux ...
Pàgina 82
... I look'd at it - I would have given the world to have kifs'd it — but was afhamed - and fhall this tender flow- er , faid I , preffing it between my hands fhall it be fmitten to its very root- and fmitten 821 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
... I look'd at it - I would have given the world to have kifs'd it — but was afhamed - and fhall this tender flow- er , faid I , preffing it between my hands fhall it be fmitten to its very root- and fmitten 821 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
Pàgina 96
... given a caft with my eye into half a dozen fhops as I came along in search of a face not likely to be difor- dered by fuch an interruption ; till at laft , this hitting my fancy , I had walked in . She was working a pair of ruffles as ...
... given a caft with my eye into half a dozen fhops as I came along in search of a face not likely to be difor- dered by fuch an interruption ; till at laft , this hitting my fancy , I had walked in . She was working a pair of ruffles as ...
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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.