The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... tion and application , I am of opinion , that a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without foreign knowledge , or fo- reign improvements , especially if he lives in a coun- try that has no ...
... tion and application , I am of opinion , that a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without foreign knowledge , or fo- reign improvements , especially if he lives in a coun- try that has no ...
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... tion , is worth one of as many ages , with your faces turned towards the ftreet : in the latter cafe , ' tis drawn from the objects and occurrences without- when your eyes are fixed upon a dead blank - you draw purely from yourselves ...
... tion , is worth one of as many ages , with your faces turned towards the ftreet : in the latter cafe , ' tis drawn from the objects and occurrences without- when your eyes are fixed upon a dead blank - you draw purely from yourselves ...
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... tion for the lady , thinking , from the spirit as well as the moral of this , that I had been mistaken in her cha- racter ; but upon turning her face towards me , the spirit which had animated the reply was fled —— the muscles relax'd ...
... tion for the lady , thinking , from the spirit as well as the moral of this , that I had been mistaken in her cha- racter ; but upon turning her face towards me , the spirit which had animated the reply was fled —— the muscles relax'd ...
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... tion or pleasurable anecdote to tell of ; but he had travelled straight on , looking neither to his right hand nor his left , lest Love or Pity should feduce him out of his road . Peace be to them ! if it is to be found ; but hea- ven ...
... tion or pleasurable anecdote to tell of ; but he had travelled straight on , looking neither to his right hand nor his left , lest Love or Pity should feduce him out of his road . Peace be to them ! if it is to be found ; but hea- ven ...
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... tion arofe betwixt them , and the poor fellow was kick'd out of his jack - boots the very first kick . La Fleur bore his fell like a French Chriftian , fay- ing neither more or lefs . upon it , than , Diable ! fo presently got up , and ...
... tion arofe betwixt them , and the poor fellow was kick'd out of his jack - boots the very first kick . La Fleur bore his fell like a French Chriftian , fay- ing neither more or lefs . upon it , than , Diable ! fo presently got up , and ...
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.