The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... must have been obferved by many a peripatetic philofopher , That Nature has fet up , by her own un- queftionable authority , certain boundaries and fen- ces to circumfcribe the difcontent of man : she has effected her purpose in the ...
... must have been obferved by many a peripatetic philofopher , That Nature has fet up , by her own un- queftionable authority , certain boundaries and fen- ces to circumfcribe the difcontent of man : she has effected her purpose in the ...
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... must be used with caution and fo- briety to turn to any profit - but as the chances run prodigiously the other way , both as to the acquifi- tion and application , I am of opinion , that a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail ...
... must be used with caution and fo- briety to turn to any profit - but as the chances run prodigiously the other way , both as to the acquifi- tion and application , I am of opinion , that a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail ...
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... must cast a damp upon your spi- rits --- You fuffer , Monf . Deffein , as much as the ma- chine . I have always obferved , when there is as much four as fweet in a compliment , that an Englishman is eternally at å lofs within himself ...
... must cast a damp upon your spi- rits --- You fuffer , Monf . Deffein , as much as the ma- chine . I have always obferved , when there is as much four as fweet in a compliment , that an Englishman is eternally at å lofs within himself ...
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... must be one of For- tune's whimsical doings ; to take two utter ftrangers by their hands - of different sexes , and , perhaps , from different corners of the globe , and , in one mo- ment , place them together in fuch a cordial ...
... must be one of For- tune's whimsical doings ; to take two utter ftrangers by their hands - of different sexes , and , perhaps , from different corners of the globe , and , in one mo- ment , place them together in fuch a cordial ...
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... must have made some flight efforts towards a clofer compreffion of her hand , from a fubtle fenfation I felt in the palm of my own - not as if she was going to withdraw hers --but as if the thought about it - and I had infal- libly loft ...
... must have made some flight efforts towards a clofer compreffion of her hand , from a fubtle fenfation I felt in the palm of my own - not as if she was going to withdraw hers --but as if the thought about it - and I had infal- libly loft ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt almoſt anſwer aſked beſt better Bicetre bidet cafe CALAIS cauſe chaife cloſe Count Deffein defired door Engliſh Eugenius faid fhe fame fecond feemed fent fentiment ferved fhall fhort fhould fide filk fille de chambre fingle firft firſt fituation Fleur fome fomething foon foul fpirits France French ftill fuch fufficient fure greateſt hand heart heaven herſelf himſelf honour houſe inftantly journey juſt La Fleur lady laſt leaſt lefs look Lord Spindle louis d'ors Madame Madame de Rambouillet Mademoiſelle maſter mifery moft Monf Monfieur moſt muſt myſelf NAMPONT never obferved occafion paffed paffion Paris pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor prefent reafon replied ſaid ſay ſcarce ſeemed SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY ſet ſhall ſhe ſmall Smelfungus ſome ſtand ſtep ſtill ſtood ſtory ſtreet ſuch thee thefe theſe thing thoſe thou thought thouſand told took traveller turn uſe whilft wiſh worfe Yorick
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 35 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Seite 92 - Upon looking nearer, 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.
Seite 93 - 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.
Seite 144 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Seite 147 - ... 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...
Seite 150 - His wife sung now and then a little to the tune, then intermitted, and joined her old man again as their children and grandchildren danced before them.
Seite 50 - The mourner said, he did not want it it was not the value of the ass but the loss of him...
Seite 49 - AND this, said he, putting the remains of a crust into his wallet, and this should have been thy portion, said he, hadst thou been alive to have shared it with me.
Seite 145 - 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.
Seite 36 - Turin, in his return home; and a sad tale of sorrowful adventures he had to tell, "wherein he spoke of moving accidents by flood and field, and of the cannibals which each other eat: the Anthropophagi" he had been flay'd alive, and bedevil'd, and used worse than St. Bartholomew, at every stage he had come at I'll tell it, cried Smelfungus, to the world. You had better tell it, said I, to your physician.