A Sentimental JourneyJohn Long, 1905 - 191 страници |
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... mons . A quarrel among the cathedral officials led him to write a skit , The History of a Warm Watch Coat , which was not published until after his death , but it revealed to him his vocation as a writer , and the genesis of the greater ...
... mons . A quarrel among the cathedral officials led him to write a skit , The History of a Warm Watch Coat , which was not published until after his death , but it revealed to him his vocation as a writer , and the genesis of the greater ...
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... Mons . Dessein speaking of it with a shrug , as if it would no way suit me , it immediately struck my fancy that it belonged to some Innocent Traveller , who , on his return home , had left it to Mons . Dessein's honour to make the most ...
... Mons . Dessein speaking of it with a shrug , as if it would no way suit me , it immediately struck my fancy that it belonged to some Innocent Traveller , who , on his return home , had left it to Mons . Dessein's honour to make the most ...
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... Mons . Dessein , as much as the machine . I have always observed , when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment , that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself whether to take it or let it alone ; a Frenchman never is : ...
... Mons . Dessein , as much as the machine . I have always observed , when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment , that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself whether to take it or let it alone ; a Frenchman never is : ...
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... Mons . Dessein left us together , with her hand in mine , and with our faces turned towards the door of the remise , and said he would be back in five minutes . Now , a colloquy of five minutes , in such a situation , is worth one of as ...
... Mons . Dessein left us together , with her hand in mine , and with our faces turned towards the door of the remise , and said he would be back in five minutes . Now , a colloquy of five minutes , in such a situation , is worth one of as ...
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... Mons . Dessein's leaving us , had been fatal to the situation , - she had infallibly turned about ; -so I began the con- versation instantly . -But what were the temptations ( as I write not to apologise for the weakness of my heart in ...
... Mons . Dessein's leaving us , had been fatal to the situation , - she had infallibly turned about ; -so I began the con- versation instantly . -But what were the temptations ( as I write not to apologise for the weakness of my heart in ...
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Abdera Amiens asked Bastile begged better betwixt bidet blush breast breeches CALAIS chaise Count cried dear désobligeante door Eugenius eyes face fair fille felt fille de chambre Fleur France gave girl give grisette half hand head heart Heaven honour instantly journey La Fleur lady LAURENCE STERNE livre look Lord Louis d'ors Madame de Rambouliet Maria Marquis master mind monk Mons MONTREUIL NAMPONT Nature never night Notary numbers old French officer Opera Comique Paris parterre passed passport pocket Pont Neuf portmanteau postilion pulled quoth remise replied Roger Sterne scarce seemed sentiment Sentimental Journey side Smelfungus soul sous spirit step Sterne stood story street supper sweet tell thee thing thou thought told took Traveller Tristram Shandy turn twas VERSAILLES walked whilst whole wished woman word wrote Yorick
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Страница 38 - The learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris from Paris to Rome and so on but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.
Страница 37 - 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.
Страница 87 - 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 to 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 take his picture.
Страница 86 - I'll let thee out, cost what it will; so I turned about the cage to get the door : it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces. — I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, pressed his breast against it, as if impatient. — I fear, poor creature, said I, I cannot set thee at liberty. " No," said the starling ; " I can't get out, —...
Страница 135 - I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
Страница 38 - I, clapping my hands cheerly together, " that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to...
Страница 143 - In a word, I thought I beheld Religion mixing in the dance ; but as I had never seen her so engaged, I should have...
Страница 37 - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on...
Страница 12 - ... truth might lie between, — he was certainly sixtyfive ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seem'd to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads...
Страница 14 - Psha ! said I, with an air of carelessness, three several times, — but it would not do ; every ungracious syllable I had uttered crowded back into my imagination : I reflected I had no right over the poor Franciscan but to deny him ; and that the punishment of that was enough to the disappointed, without the addition of unkind language — I considered his grey hairs : — his courteous figure seem'd to reenter and gently ask me what injury he had done me ? — and why I could use him thus ? —...