A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... his death . From this passage , it appears that the present account of Mr. Sterne's Life and Family was written about six months only before his death . devoted his attention to the future welfare of his daughter TO STERNE . 9.
... his death . From this passage , it appears that the present account of Mr. Sterne's Life and Family was written about six months only before his death . devoted his attention to the future welfare of his daughter TO STERNE . 9.
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... passage probably alludes to his quarrel with his uncle ; and as he mentions having taken a small house in York for ... passages which really had none , gave the book a most extra- ordinary degree of eclat . But the applause of the public ...
... passage probably alludes to his quarrel with his uncle ; and as he mentions having taken a small house in York for ... passages which really had none , gave the book a most extra- ordinary degree of eclat . But the applause of the public ...
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... passages which ever fell from the author's pen , yet neither Uncle Toby nor his faithful attendant were sufficient to attract the public attention in the same degree as before . Thus the popularity of this singular work was for a time ...
... passages which ever fell from the author's pen , yet neither Uncle Toby nor his faithful attendant were sufficient to attract the public attention in the same degree as before . Thus the popularity of this singular work was for a time ...
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... passage in one of his letters shows how lightly he was disposed to esteem the charge ; and what is singular enough , his plan for turning it into ridicule seems to have been serious . " Crebillon ( le fils ) has made a convention with ...
... passage in one of his letters shows how lightly he was disposed to esteem the charge ; and what is singular enough , his plan for turning it into ridicule seems to have been serious . " Crebillon ( le fils ) has made a convention with ...
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... passage stolen , is his declamation against literary depredators of his own class : " Shall we , " says Sterne , " for ever make new books , as apothecaries make new medicines , by pouring only out of one vessel into another ? Are we ...
... passage stolen , is his declamation against literary depredators of his own class : " Shall we , " says Sterne , " for ever make new books , as apothecaries make new medicines , by pouring only out of one vessel into another ? Are we ...
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Popular passages
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.