The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author, 2. köideBickers & son, 1873 |
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... France , cross over the Oyes , and , with all Picardy open behind him , march up to the gates of Paris , and fall asleep with nothing but ideas of glory : - no more was he to dream he had fixed the royal standard upon the tower of the ...
... France , cross over the Oyes , and , with all Picardy open behind him , march up to the gates of Paris , and fall asleep with nothing but ideas of glory : - no more was he to dream he had fixed the royal standard upon the tower of the ...
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... France , Count of Boulogne , to the present war , wherein many reparations were made , have cost ( as I learnt afterwards from an engi- neer in Gascony ) -above a hundred millions of livres . -It is very remarkable , that at the Tête de ...
... France , Count of Boulogne , to the present war , wherein many reparations were made , have cost ( as I learnt afterwards from an engi- neer in Gascony ) -above a hundred millions of livres . -It is very remarkable , that at the Tête de ...
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... France which , in my opinion , looks better in the map than Montreuil . — I own , it does not look so well in the book of post - roads ; but when you come to see it , -to be sure it looks most pitifully . There is one thing , however ...
... France which , in my opinion , looks better in the map than Montreuil . — I own , it does not look so well in the book of post - roads ; but when you come to see it , -to be sure it looks most pitifully . There is one thing , however ...
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... France ) . And so making all possible speed , from Ailly au Clochers , I got to Hixcourt ; from Hixcourt , I got to Perquignay ; and from Perquignay , I got to Amiens ; concerning which town I have nothing to inform you , but what I ...
... France ) . And so making all possible speed , from Ailly au Clochers , I got to Hixcourt ; from Hixcourt , I got to Perquignay ; and from Perquignay , I got to Amiens ; concerning which town I have nothing to inform you , but what I ...
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... France as we do in England ; whereas we get on much faster , consideratis considerandis ; thereby always meaning , that if you weigh their vehicles with the mountains of baggage which you lay both before and behind upon them , and then ...
... France as we do in England ; whereas we get on much faster , consideratis considerandis ; thereby always meaning , that if you weigh their vehicles with the mountains of baggage which you lay both before and behind upon them , and then ...
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Page 15 - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it. Are you sure of it ? replied the curate. A soldier, an' please your reverence, said I, prays as often (of his own accord) as a parson ; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour too, he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole world. 'Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier,...
Page 305 - 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.
Page 214 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 12 - IT was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe, that Corporal Trim returned from the inn, and gave him the following account : I despaired at first...
Page 20 - My uncle Toby went to his bureau, put his purse into his breeches pocket, and, having ordered the Corporal to go early in the morning for a physician, he went to bed and fell asleep.
Page 409 - Eternal fountain of our feelings ! — 'tis here I trace thee — and this is thy ' divinity which stirs within me' — not that in some sad and sickening moments, ' my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction ' — 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 357 - said the starling. I stood looking at the bird; and to every person who came through the passage it ran, fluttering to the side towards which they approached it, with the same lamentation of its captivity. "I can't get out!
Page 412 - ... and in three minutes every soul was ready, upon a little esplanade before the house, to begin. The old man and his wife came out last, and, placing me betwixt them, sat down upon a sofa of turf by the door.
Page 15 - ... an' please your reverence, has been standing for twelve hours together in the trenches, up to his knees in cold water — or engaged, said I, for months together in long and dangerous marches ; harassed, perhaps, in his rear to-day ; harassing others to-morrow ; detached here ; countermanded there ; resting this night out upon his arms ; beat up in his shirt the next ; benumbed in his joints ; perhaps without straw in his tent to kneel on, [he] must say his prayers how and when he can. I believe...
Page 357 - 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,