A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... lady mentioned under the initial L. was the Marquise Lamberti ; to the interest of this lady he was indebted for the passport , which began to make him seriously uneasy . Count de B. ( Bretuil ) , notwith- standing the Shakespeare , La ...
... lady mentioned under the initial L. was the Marquise Lamberti ; to the interest of this lady he was indebted for the passport , which began to make him seriously uneasy . Count de B. ( Bretuil ) , notwith- standing the Shakespeare , La ...
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... lady of fortune and condition whether she had read his book . " I have not , Mr. Sterne , " was the answer ; " and , to be plain with you , I am informed it is not proper for female perusal . " - " My dear good lady , " replied the ...
... lady of fortune and condition whether she had read his book . " I have not , Mr. Sterne , " was the answer ; " and , to be plain with you , I am informed it is not proper for female perusal . " - " My dear good lady , " replied the ...
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... lady of the true poco - curante school , who neither obstructed the progress of her husband's hobbyhorse , to use a phrase which Sterne has rendered classical , nor could be prevailed upon to spare him the least admiration for the grace ...
... lady of the true poco - curante school , who neither obstructed the progress of her husband's hobbyhorse , to use a phrase which Sterne has rendered classical , nor could be prevailed upon to spare him the least admiration for the grace ...
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... lady just arrived at the inn , I drew the taffeta curtain betwixt us , and , being determined to write my journey , I took out my pen and ink , and wrote the preface to it in the desobligeant . PREFACE . IN THE DESOBLIGEANT . Ir must ...
... lady just arrived at the inn , I drew the taffeta curtain betwixt us , and , being determined to write my journey , I took out my pen and ink , and wrote the preface to it in the desobligeant . PREFACE . IN THE DESOBLIGEANT . Ir must ...
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... lady whom I had seen in con- ference with the monk : -she had followed us unper- ceived . — Heaven forbid , indeed ! said I , offering her my own ; she had a black pair of silk gloves , open only at the thumb and two forefingers , so ...
... lady whom I had seen in con- ference with the monk : -she had followed us unper- ceived . — Heaven forbid , indeed ! said I , offering her my own ; she had a black pair of silk gloves , open only at the thumb and two forefingers , so ...
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Page 344 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 112 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.
Page 255 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Page 166 - Eternal fountain of our feeling! — 'tis here I trace thee, — and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me;" — not that. in some sad and sickening moments, " my soul shrinks back upon Herself, and startles at destruction...
Page 316 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 260 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 167 - Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me" not, that in some sad and sickening moments, "my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction" 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...
Page 114 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Page 255 - It is true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of clothes or dresses, do according to certain compositions receive different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
Page 337 - Epicurus modestly hoped that one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse of all men's opinions, after perpetual justlings, the sharp with the smooth, the light and the heavy, the round and the square, would, by certain clinamina, unite in the notions of atoms and void, as these did in the originals of all things. Cartesius reckoned to see, before he died, the sentiments of all philosophers, like so many lesser stars in his romantick system, wrapped and drawn within his own vortex.