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 من الصفحات |
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... sitting by her with an almost broken heart to see her so ill , she said , " My dear Laurey , I can never be yours , for I verily believe I have not long to live - but I have left you every shilling of my fortune ; " - upon that she ...
... sitting by her with an almost broken heart to see her so ill , she said , " My dear Laurey , I can never be yours , for I verily believe I have not long to live - but I have left you every shilling of my fortune ; " - upon that she ...
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... sitting behind him at a small sideboard , I say sitting - for in consideration of the Cor- poral's lame knee ( which sometimes gave him ex- quisite pain ) when my uncle Toby dined or supped alone he would never suffer the Corporal to ...
... sitting behind him at a small sideboard , I say sitting - for in consideration of the Cor- poral's lame knee ( which sometimes gave him ex- quisite pain ) when my uncle Toby dined or supped alone he would never suffer the Corporal to ...
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... sitting thus at supper , when the landlord of a little inn in the village came into the parlour with an empty phial in his hand , to beg a glass or two of sack . " Tis for a poor gentle- man , -I think of the army , said the landlord ...
... sitting thus at supper , when the landlord of a little inn in the village came into the parlour with an empty phial in his hand , to beg a glass or two of sack . " Tis for a poor gentle- man , -I think of the army , said the landlord ...
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... sit down at thy ease , Trim , in the window seat , and begin thy story again . The Corporal made his old bow , which generally spoke as plain as a bow could speak it— Your honour is good : And having done that , he sat down , as he was ...
... sit down at thy ease , Trim , in the window seat , and begin thy story again . The Corporal made his old bow , which generally spoke as plain as a bow could speak it— Your honour is good : And having done that , he sat down , as he was ...
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... sit down upon by the fire , whilst I did it . - I believe , sir , said he , very mo- destly , I can please him best myself . — I am sure , said I , his honour will not like the toast the worse for being toasted by an old soldier . - The ...
... sit down upon by the fire , whilst I did it . - I believe , sir , said he , very mo- destly , I can please him best myself . — I am sure , said I , his honour will not like the toast the worse for being toasted by an old soldier . - The ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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,
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...