The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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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 twen- ty miles failing , for ' tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais , should give a man these ...
... turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world . Strange ! quoth I , debating the matter with myself , That one and twen- ty miles failing , for ' tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais , should give a man these ...
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... turn to any profit but as the chances run prodigi- oufly the other way , both as to the ac- quifition and application , I am of opi- nion , That a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without ...
... turn to any profit but as the chances run prodigi- oufly the other way , both as to the ac- quifition and application , I am of opi- nion , That a man would act as wifely , if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without ...
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... turn of mind take , Monf . Deffein , in their own fenfations - I'm perfuaded , to a man who feels for others as well as for him- felf , every rainy night , difguife it as you will , muft caft a damp upon your fpi- rits - You fuffer ...
... turn of mind take , Monf . Deffein , in their own fenfations - I'm perfuaded , to a man who feels for others as well as for him- felf , every rainy night , difguife it as you will , muft caft a damp upon your fpi- rits - You fuffer ...
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... turning myself about , as a man naturally does upon a sudden reverfe of fentiment - bafe ungentle paf- fion ! thy hand is against every man , and every man's hand against thee Hea- ven forbid ! faid fhe , raifing her hand up to her ...
... turning myself about , as a man naturally does upon a sudden reverfe of fentiment - bafe ungentle paf- fion ! thy hand is against every man , and every man's hand against thee Hea- ven forbid ! faid fhe , raifing her hand up to her ...
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... turning her face towards me , the fpirit which had ani- mated the reply was fled - the muscles relaxed , and I beheld the fame unpro tected look of diftrefs which firft won me to her intereft - melancholy ! to fee fuch sprightliness the ...
... turning her face towards me , the fpirit which had ani- mated the reply was fled - the muscles relaxed , and I beheld the fame unpro tected look of diftrefs which firft won me to her intereft - melancholy ! to fee fuch sprightliness the ...
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Página 166 - ... 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...
Página 7 - Truth might lie between He was certainly sixty-five; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads, which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it looked forwards; but looked, as if it looked at something beyond this world.
Página 159 - When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar; — she was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand. A small brook ran at the foot of the tree.
Página 51 - 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.
Página 102 - Make the most of it you can, said I to myself, the Bastile is but another word for a tower ;— and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of. — Mercy on the gouty ! for they are in it twice a year. — But with nine livres a day, and pen and ink and paper and patience, albeit a man can't get out, he may do very well within...
Página 103 - 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.
Página 103 - ... there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. 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. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture...
Página 68 - I'm sure thou hast been a merciful master to him. Alas! said the mourner, I thought so when he was alive ; but now that he is dead, I think otherwise. I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together, have been too much for him, they have shortened the poor creature's days, and I fear I have them to answer for.
Página 68 - The mourner said, he did not want it it was not the value of the ass but the loss of him The ass, he said, he was assured loved him...
Página 159 - Sylvio, said she. I looked in Maria's eyes, and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as she uttered them the tears trickled down