The Beauties of Sterne: Including All His Pathetic Tales, and Most Distinguished Observations on Life. Selected for the Heart of SensibilityS. Colbert, 1784 - 276 páginas |
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Página 44
... quoth the corporal ; -I'll take my hat and stick and go to the house and reconnoitre , and act ac- cordingly ; and I will bring your honour a full account in an hour . - Thou fhalt go Trim , faid my uncle Toby , and here's a fhilling ...
... quoth the corporal ; -I'll take my hat and stick and go to the house and reconnoitre , and act ac- cordingly ; and I will bring your honour a full account in an hour . - Thou fhalt go Trim , faid my uncle Toby , and here's a fhilling ...
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... quoth the Corporal , for the reputation of the army , I believe an ' please your reverence , faid I , that when a foldier gets time to pray , he prays as heartily as a parfon , though not with all his fufs and hypocrify - Thou shouldst ...
... quoth the Corporal , for the reputation of the army , I believe an ' please your reverence , faid I , that when a foldier gets time to pray , he prays as heartily as a parfon , though not with all his fufs and hypocrify - Thou shouldst ...
Página 49
... Corporal , I had no orders ; -True , quoth my uncle Toby , -thou didst very right , Trim , as a foldier , but certainly very wrong as a man . C In In the fecond place , for which , indeed , THE BEAUTIES OF STERNE . 49.
... Corporal , I had no orders ; -True , quoth my uncle Toby , -thou didst very right , Trim , as a foldier , but certainly very wrong as a man . C In In the fecond place , for which , indeed , THE BEAUTIES OF STERNE . 49.
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... quoth she , as he pafs'd by us , to give himself the trouble of feeling my pulfe - The husband took off his hat , and making me a bow , said I did him too much honour - and having said that , he put on his hat and walked out . Good God ...
... quoth she , as he pafs'd by us , to give himself the trouble of feeling my pulfe - The husband took off his hat , and making me a bow , said I did him too much honour - and having said that , he put on his hat and walked out . Good God ...
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... quoth my father , interrupt- ing him , you give that fentence a very improper accent ; for you curl up your nofe , man , and read it with fuch a fneering tone , as if the Parfon was going to abuse the Apostle . He is , an ' please your ...
... quoth my father , interrupt- ing him , you give that fentence a very improper accent ; for you curl up your nofe , man , and read it with fuch a fneering tone , as if the Parfon was going to abuse the Apostle . He is , an ' please your ...
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Página 156 - I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me, I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to...
Página 44 - I served three campaigns with him in Flanders, and remember him, but 'tis most likely, as I had not the honour of any acquaintance with him, that he knows nothing of me. You will tell him, however, that the person his good nature has laid under obligations to him, is one Le Fevre, a lieutenant in Angus's — but he knows me not...
Página 44 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby ; he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears like the name of a friend : I wish I had him here. I never in the longest march, said the Corporal, had so great a mind to my dinner, as I had to cry with him for company. What could be the matter with me, an...
Página 72 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
Página 108 - Maria deserve, than to have her Banns forbid, by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them...
Página 44 - Thou art an excellent nurse thyself, Trim, — and what with thy care of him, and the old woman's, and his boy's, and mine together, we might recruit him again at once, and set him upon his legs. In a fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling, he might march. He will never march; an...
Página 44 - Tis finished already, said the corporal, for I could stay no longer, so wished his honour a good night. Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs ; and as we went down together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. But, alas ! said the corporal, the lieutenant's last day's march is over.
Página 44 - ... twill be enough to give your honour your death, and bring on your honour's torment in your groin. I fear so, replied my uncle Toby; but I am not at rest in my mind, Trim, since the account the landlord has given me. I wish I had not known so much of this affair, — added my uncle Toby, — or that I had known more of it: How shall we manage it?