A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr Yorrick1779 |
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... told thee , Eliza , I would carry with me into my grave , Would have been torn from my neck . Ungene- rous ! to feize upon the wreck of an unwary paf- fenger , whom your fubjects had beckon'd to their coaft by heaven ! SIRE , it is not ...
... told thee , Eliza , I would carry with me into my grave , Would have been torn from my neck . Ungene- rous ! to feize upon the wreck of an unwary paf- fenger , whom your fubjects had beckon'd to their coaft by heaven ! SIRE , it is not ...
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... ( as I write not to apologize for the weaknesses of my heart in this tour , - but to give an account of them ) fhall be described with the fame fimplicity , with which I felt them . THE THE REMISE DOOR . CALAIS . - When I told 24.
... ( as I write not to apologize for the weaknesses of my heart in this tour , - but to give an account of them ) fhall be described with the fame fimplicity , with which I felt them . THE THE REMISE DOOR . CALAIS . - When I told 24.
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Laurence Sterne. THE REMISE DOOR . CALAIS . - When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the Defobligeant , because I faw the monk in clofe conference with a lady just arrived at the inn I told him the truth ; but I did not ...
Laurence Sterne. THE REMISE DOOR . CALAIS . - When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the Defobligeant , because I faw the monk in clofe conference with a lady just arrived at the inn I told him the truth ; but I did not ...
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... told her what was paffing within me : fhe looked down - a filence of fome moments followed . I fear , in this interval , I must have made fome flight efforts towards a clofer compreffion of her hand , from a fubtle fenfation I felt in ...
... told her what was paffing within me : fhe looked down - a filence of fome moments followed . I fear , in this interval , I must have made fome flight efforts towards a clofer compreffion of her hand , from a fubtle fenfation I felt in ...
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... told it her , must have planted . in her breast against me . THE SNUFF - BOX . CALAIS . The good old monk was within fix paces of us , as the idea of him crofs'd my mind ; and was advan- cing towards us a little out of the line , as if ...
... told it her , must have planted . in her breast against me . THE SNUFF - BOX . CALAIS . The good old monk was within fix paces of us , as the idea of him crofs'd my mind ; and was advan- cing towards us a little out of the line , as if ...
Common terms and phrases
afk'd againſt begg'd better betwixt bidet breaſt cafe caft CALAIS chaife cloſe Count Deffein door Engliſh Eugenius eyes faid fhe fame fcarce fecond feem'd feemed feen fent fentiment feven fhall fhew fhould fide filk fille de chambre fimple fingle firſt fituation Fleur fmall fome fomething foon foul fous fpirit ftood fuch fupper fure fweet hand heart heaven herſelf himſelf honour houſe inftantly itſelf juſt La Fleur lady laſt leaſt lefs livre look look'd Louis d'ors Madame Maria maſter Monf Monfieur moſt muſt myſelf NAMPONT notary numbers obferving occafion old French old French officer opera comique paffage paffing pafs'd Paris parterre pleaſure pocket poor portmanteau prefent reafon Remife replied ſaid ſcarce ſhe ſmall Smelfungus ſtep ſtory ſtreet thee theſe thing thou told took traveller turn twas walk'd whofe wiſh worfe Yorick
Popular passages
Page 63 - He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat it, held it some time in his hand, then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle, looked wistfully at the little arrangement he had made, and then gave a sigh.
Page 183 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion. 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.
Page 63 - AND this, said he, putting the remains of a crust into his wallet, and this should have been thy portion, said he, hadst thou been alive to have shared it with me.
Page 183 - As she told me this, she took the handkerchief out of her pocket to let me see it : she had folded it up neatly in a couple of vine leaves, tied round with a tendril ; on opening it, I saw an S marked in one of the corners.
Page 44 - 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.
Page 187 - ... 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...
Page 116 - 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.
Page 133 - tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of NATURE, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other and the world, better than we do.
Page 114 - NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron with thee to smile upon him as he eats his crust, the swain is happier than his monarch, from whose court thou art exiled Gracious heaven! cried I, kneeling down upon the last step but one in my ascent, grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion and shower down thy mitres, if it seems good unto thy divine providence, upon those heads...
Page 181 - When we had got within half a league of Moulines, at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket, I discovered poor Maria sitting under a poplar; — she was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand.