A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... thought herself not rich enough , or me too poor , to be joined together . She went to her sister's in S― ; and I wrote to her often . I believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so . At her return she fell ...
... thought herself not rich enough , or me too poor , to be joined together . She went to her sister's in S― ; and I wrote to her often . I believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so . At her return she fell ...
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... thought might divert his melancholy . He used to smile at my well - meant zeal , and I could see was happy to be relieved . At others , he seemed to have received a new soul - he launched into the levity natural à mon pays , " said La ...
... thought might divert his melancholy . He used to smile at my well - meant zeal , and I could see was happy to be relieved . At others , he seemed to have received a new soul - he launched into the levity natural à mon pays , " said La ...
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... thought proper to adopt , we find a sure guide in the ingenious Dr. Ferriar of Manchester , who , with most singular patience , has traced our author through the hidden sources whence he borrowed most of his learning , and many of his ...
... thought proper to adopt , we find a sure guide in the ingenious Dr. Ferriar of Manchester , who , with most singular patience , has traced our author through the hidden sources whence he borrowed most of his learning , and many of his ...
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... thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four Louis d'ors , which is the most ...
... thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four Louis d'ors , which is the most ...
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... thought no more of her , but went on and wrote my preface . The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street ; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good ...
... thought no more of her , but went on and wrote my preface . The impression returned upon my encounter with her in the street ; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand , showed , I thought , her good educa- tion and her good ...
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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.