The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...J. Sharpe, 1810 - 252 страници |
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... father - in - law , who was a noted sutler in Flan- ders , in Queen Ann's wars , where my father married his wife's daughter ( N. B. he was in debt to him ) , which was in September 25 , 1711 , old style.- This Nuttle had a son by my ...
... father - in - law , who was a noted sutler in Flan- ders , in Queen Ann's wars , where my father married his wife's daughter ( N. B. he was in debt to him ) , which was in September 25 , 1711 , old style.- This Nuttle had a son by my ...
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... father , who was , the day after our arrival , with many other brave officers , broke , and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children - the elder of which was Mary ; she was born at Lisle in French Flan- ders , July ...
... father , who was , the day after our arrival , with many other brave officers , broke , and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children - the elder of which was Mary ; she was born at Lisle in French Flan- ders , July ...
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... father took a large house , furnished it , and in a year and a half's time spent a great deal of money . -In the year one thousand seven hundred and nineteen , all unhinged again ; the regiment was or- dered , with many others , to the ...
... father took a large house , furnished it , and in a year and a half's time spent a great deal of money . -In the year one thousand seven hundred and nineteen , all unhinged again ; the regiment was or- dered , with many others , to the ...
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... father had for some weeks given us over for lost . We lived in the barracks at Wicklow one year ( one thousand seven hundred and twenty ) , when Devijeher ( so called after Colonel Devijeher ) was born ; from thence we decamped to stay ...
... father had for some weeks given us over for lost . We lived in the barracks at Wicklow one year ( one thousand seven hundred and twenty ) , when Devijeher ( so called after Colonel Devijeher ) was born ; from thence we decamped to stay ...
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... father to me , and sent me to the university , & c . & c . To pursue the thread of our story , my father's regiment was the year after or- dered to Londonderry , where another sister was brought forth , Catherine , still living , but ...
... father to me , and sent me to the university , & c . & c . To pursue the thread of our story , my father's regiment was the year after or- dered to Londonderry , where another sister was brought forth , Catherine , still living , but ...
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Страница 49 - ... head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed 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.
Страница 25 - Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, — rallied back, — the film forsook his eyes for a moment ; — he looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face ; — then cast a look upon his boy ; — and that ligament, fine as it was — was never broken ! Nature instantly ebb'd again; — the film returned to its place ; — the pulse fluttered ; — stopped ; — went on,— throbbed, — stopped again; — moved, stopped. — Shall I...
Страница 30 - tis an animal (be in what hurry I may) I cannot bear to strike there is a patient endurance of sufferings, wrote so unaffectedly in his looks and carriage, which pleads so mightily for him, that it always disarms me; and to that degree, that I do not like to speak unkindly to him: on the contrary, meet him where I will — whether in town or country — in cart...
Страница 18 - I was answered, an' please your honour, that he had no servant with him; that he had come to the inn with hired horses, which, upon finding himself unable to proceed (to join, I suppose, the regiment), he had dismissed the morning after he came. — If I get better, my dear, said he, as he gave his purse to his son to pay the man, — we can hire horses from hence. But alas! the poor gentleman will never get from hence...
Страница 24 - He shall not drop," said my uncle Toby, firmly. " A-well-o'day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point ; " the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G — ," cried my uncle Toby. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Страница 48 - 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.
Страница 32 - em, which I had just bought, and gave him one ; — and, at this moment that I am telling it, my heart smites me that there was more of pleasantry in the conceit of seeing how an ass would eat a macaroon than of benevolence in giving him one, which presided in the act. " When the ass had eaten his macaroon, I pressed him to come in.
Страница 47 - I took to be of a child, which complained " it could not " get out" — I look'd 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,
Страница 112 - The sun was set — they had done their work; the nymphs had tied up their hair afresh — and the swains were preparing for a carousal — my mule made a dead point — Tis the fife and tabourin, said I — I'm frightened to death, quoth he — They are running at the ring of pleasure...
Страница 113 - Tie me up this tress instantly, said Nannette, putting a piece of string into my hand — It taught me to forget I was a stranger The whole knot fell down We had been seven years acquainted. The youth struck the note upon the...