A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyNimmo and Bain, 1882 - 394 páginas |
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... walked by her side to the cottage where she lived ; there he talked earnestly to the old woman . " " Every day , " said La Fleur , " while we stayed there , I carried them meat and drink from the hotel , and when we departed from ...
... walked by her side to the cottage where she lived ; there he talked earnestly to the old woman . " " Every day , " said La Fleur , " while we stayed there , I carried them meat and drink from the hotel , and when we departed from ...
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... walked out into the coach- yard to buy or hire something of that kind to my purpose : an old disobligeant , * in the furthest corner of the court , hit my fancy at first sight ; so I instantly got into it , and finding it in tolerable ...
... walked out into the coach- yard to buy or hire something of that kind to my purpose : an old disobligeant , * in the furthest corner of the court , hit my fancy at first sight ; so I instantly got into it , and finding it in tolerable ...
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... walked together towards his remise , to take a view of his magazine of chaises . IN THE STREET . CALAIS . Ir must needs be a hostile kind of a world , when the buyer ( if it be but of a sorry post - chaise ) cannot go forth with the ...
... walked together towards his remise , to take a view of his magazine of chaises . IN THE STREET . CALAIS . Ir must needs be a hostile kind of a world , when the buyer ( if it be but of a sorry post - chaise ) cannot go forth with the ...
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... walked along in profile , then en face ; thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of ...
... walked along in profile , then en face ; thought he looked like a Jew , -then a Turk , disliked his wig , -cursed him by my gods , - wished him at the Devil ! -And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of ...
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... walked with her cheek half resting upon the palm of her hand , -with the slow , short - measured step of thoughtfulness , and with her eyes , as she went step by step , fixed upon the ground , it struck me she was trying the same cause ...
... walked with her cheek half resting upon the palm of her hand , -with the slow , short - measured step of thoughtfulness , and with her eyes , as she went step by step , fixed upon the ground , it struck me she was trying the same cause ...
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Página 352 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Página 113 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, 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 fellow-creatures, 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...
Página 111 - ... the cage to pieces. — I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and...
Página 391 - Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of CERVANTES by JOHN G. LOCKHART. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of PKTER ANTHONY MOTTEUX by HENRI VAN LAUN.
Página 324 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Página 6 - ... till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment.
Página 264 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Página 114 - ... his chair and bed: a little calendar of small sticks were laid at the 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.
Página 114 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Página 253 - For about this time it happened a sect arose, whose tenets obtained and spread very far, especially in the grand monde, and among everybody of good fashion. They worshipped a sort of idol, who, as their doctrine delivered, did daily create men by a kind of manufactory operation.