The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, 1783 |
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... fmall , that they would not de- ferve a diftinction , was it not neceffary in a work of this nature to obferve the greatest precifion and nicety , to avoid a confufion of character . And thefe men I fpeak of , are fuch as crofs the feas ...
... fmall , that they would not de- ferve a diftinction , was it not neceffary in a work of this nature to obferve the greatest precifion and nicety , to avoid a confufion of character . And thefe men I fpeak of , are fuch as crofs the feas ...
Strana 35
... fmall tortoife one ) and putting it into his hand - Tis moft excellent , faid the monk ; Then do me the favour , I re- plied , to accept of the box and all , and when you take a pinch out of it , fometimes recollect it was the peace ...
... fmall tortoife one ) and putting it into his hand - Tis moft excellent , faid the monk ; Then do me the favour , I re- plied , to accept of the box and all , and when you take a pinch out of it , fometimes recollect it was the peace ...
Strana 48
... fmall , quiet attentions , not fo pointed as to alarm nor fo vague as to be misun- derstood with now and then a look of kindness , and little or nothing faid upon it leaves nature for your mif trefs , and fhe fashions it to her mind ...
... fmall , quiet attentions , not fo pointed as to alarm nor fo vague as to be misun- derstood with now and then a look of kindness , and little or nothing faid upon it leaves nature for your mif trefs , and fhe fashions it to her mind ...
Strana 61
... fmall cast of the coxcomb - but he feemed at first fight to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art ; and before I had been three days in Paris with him - he feemed to be no coxcomb at all . THE MONTRIUL . HE next morning , La Fleur ...
... fmall cast of the coxcomb - but he feemed at first fight to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art ; and before I had been three days in Paris with him - he feemed to be no coxcomb at all . THE MONTRIUL . HE next morning , La Fleur ...
Strana 68
... fmall pinch out of his box , to enhance their value , as I did it . — He felt the weight of the fecond obligation more than of the first ' twas doing him an honour - the other was only doing him a charity and he made me a bow down to ...
... fmall pinch out of his box , to enhance their value , as I did it . — He felt the weight of the fecond obligation more than of the first ' twas doing him an honour - the other was only doing him a charity and he made me a bow down to ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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,
Strana 220 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.