The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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... must have gone to the King of France - even the little picture which I have fo long worn , and so often have told thee , Eliza , I would carry with me into my grave , would have been torn from my neck . - Unge- nerous ! -to seize upon ...
... must have gone to the King of France - even the little picture which I have fo long worn , and so often have told thee , Eliza , I would carry with me into my grave , would have been torn from my neck . - Unge- nerous ! -to seize upon ...
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... must have been observed by many a peripatetic philofopher , That nature has fet up by her own unquestionable au- thority certain boundaries and fences to * A Chaife , fo called in France , from its hold- ing but one person ...
... must have been observed by many a peripatetic philofopher , That nature has fet up by her own unquestionable au- thority certain boundaries and fences to * A Chaife , fo called in France , from its hold- ing but one person ...
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... the balance of fentimental commerce is always against the expatriated adven- turer : he must buy what he has little occafion for , at their own price -- his converfation will feldom be taken in ex- change for theirs 14 A SENTIMENTAL ...
... the balance of fentimental commerce is always against the expatriated adven- turer : he must buy what he has little occafion for , at their own price -- his converfation will feldom be taken in ex- change for theirs 14 A SENTIMENTAL ...
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... must be used with caution and fobriety , to 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 à man would act as wifely , if he could prevail ...
... must be used with caution and fobriety , to 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 à man would act as wifely , if he could prevail ...
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... must one day come and give an account of this work ) -that I do not speak it vauntingly - But there is no na- tion under heaven abounding with more variety of learning - where the fciences may be more fitly woo'd , or more furely won ...
... must one day come and give an account of this work ) -that I do not speak it vauntingly - But there is no na- tion under heaven abounding with more variety of learning - where the fciences may be more fitly woo'd , or more furely won ...
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Página 137 - 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 of confinement...
Página 137 - I saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years the -western breeze had not once fanned his blood — he had •seen no sun, no moon in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice —his children — — But here my heart began to bleed — and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 132 - 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 220 - Shorn indeed ! and to the quick," said I ; " and wast thou in my own land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread, and drink of my own cup.
Página 136 - I took a single captive; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Página 133 - I looked up and down the passage, and seeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention. In my return back through the passage, I heard the same words repeated twice over; and looking up, I saw it was a starling hung in a little cage: " I can't get out, I can't get out,
Página 220 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Página 224 - ... 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 89 - I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.