A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... turn back into Wales , where we stayed a month , and at length got into Dublin , and travelled by land to Wicklow ; where my father had for some weeks given us over for lost . We lived in the barracks at Wick- low one year ( one ...
... turn back into Wales , where we stayed a month , and at length got into Dublin , and travelled by land to Wicklow ; where my father had for some weeks given us over for lost . We lived in the barracks at Wick- low one year ( one ...
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... turning it into ridicule seems to have been serious . " Crebillon ( le fils ) has made a convention with me , which , if he is not too lazy , will be no bad persiflage . As soon as I get to Toulouse , he has agreed to write me an ...
... turning it into ridicule seems to have been serious . " Crebillon ( le fils ) has made a convention with me , which , if he is not too lazy , will be no bad persiflage . As soon as I get to Toulouse , he has agreed to write me an ...
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... turning quick upon me , with the most civil triumph in the world . Strange ! quoth I , debating the matter with myself , That one - and - twenty miles sailing , for ' tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais , should give a man ...
... turning quick upon me , with the most civil triumph in the world . Strange ! quoth I , debating the matter with myself , That one - and - twenty miles sailing , for ' tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais , should give a man ...
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... turn to any profit : -but , as the chances run prodigiously the other way , both as to the acquisition and application , I am of opinion , That a man would act as wisely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without ...
... turn to any profit : -but , as the chances run prodigiously the other way , both as to the acquisition and application , I am of opinion , That a man would act as wisely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without ...
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... turn of mind take , Mons . Dessein , in their own sensa- tions . I'm persuaded , to a man who feels for others as well as for himself , every rainy night , disguise it as you will , must cast a damp upon your spirits . You suffer , Mons ...
... turn of mind take , Mons . Dessein , in their own sensa- tions . I'm persuaded , to a man who feels for others as well as for himself , every rainy night , disguise it as you will , must cast a damp upon your spirits . You suffer , Mons ...
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Page 342 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 110 - 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 253 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Page 164 - 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 314 - 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 258 - ... 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 165 - 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 112 - 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 254 - 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 335 - 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.