The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the AuthorBickers; H. Southeran, 1873 |
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... Paris to Schevling , and from Schevling back again , merely to see Stevinus's flying chariot . — He was a very great man ! added my uncle Toby ( meaning Stevinus . ) - He was so , brother Toby , said my father , ( meaning Peireskius ) ...
... Paris to Schevling , and from Schevling back again , merely to see Stevinus's flying chariot . — He was a very great man ! added my uncle Toby ( meaning Stevinus . ) - He was so , brother Toby , said my father , ( meaning Peireskius ) ...
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... 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 Bastile , and awake with it streaming in his head : -Softer visions , gentler vibrations , stole ...
... 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 Bastile , and awake with it streaming in his head : -Softer visions , gentler vibrations , stole ...
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... Paris ; in behalf of which , there is so much to be said by the several deputies from the towns which lie along them , that half a day is easily lost in settling which you'll take . First , The road by Lisle and Arras , which is the ...
... Paris ; in behalf of which , there is so much to be said by the several deputies from the towns which lie along them , that half a day is easily lost in settling which you'll take . First , The road by Lisle and Arras , which is the ...
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... Paris , in going through her classes ; so knits , and sews , and dances , and does the little coquetries very well . A slut ! in running them over within these five minutes that I have stood looking at her , she has let fall at least a ...
... Paris , in going through her classes ; so knits , and sews , and dances , and does the little coquetries very well . A slut ! in running them over within these five minutes that I have stood looking at her , she has let fall at least a ...
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... Paris ; -yet I hate to make mysteries of nothing ; - ' tis the cold cautiousness of one of those little souls from which Lessius ( lib . 13 . de Moribus Divinis , cap . 24. ) hath made his estimate ; wherein he setteth forth , That one ...
... Paris ; -yet I hate to make mysteries of nothing ; - ' tis the cold cautiousness of one of those little souls from which Lessius ( lib . 13 . de Moribus Divinis , cap . 24. ) hath made his estimate ; wherein he setteth forth , That one ...
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Page 13 - 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.
Page 17 - Fevre — as sickness and travelling are both expensive, and thou knowest he was but a poor lieutenant, with a son to subsist as well as himself out of his pay — that thou didst not make an offer to him of my purse ; because, had he stood in need, thou knowest, Trim, he had been as welcome to it as myself.
Page 400 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Page 59 - Sir — for, in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader's fancy...
Page 353 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye toward the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Page 313 - Fleur offered him money The mourner said, he did not want it it was not the value of the ass but the loss of him The ass, he said, he was assured loved him and upon this told them a long story of a mischance upon their passage over the Pyrenean mountains which had separated them from each other three days; during which time the ass had sought him as much as he had sought the ass, and that they had neither scarce eat or drank till they met. Thou hast one comfort, friend...
Page 11 - 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 124 - em, which I had just purchased, 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.
Page 17 - ... continued my uncle Toby, when thou offeredst him whatever was in my house, thou shouldst have offered him my house, too: A sick brother officer should have the best quarters, Trim, and if we had him with us, — we could tend and look to him : Thou art an excellent nurse thyself, Trim, — and what with thy care of him, and the old woman's, and his boy's, and mine together, we might recruit him again at once, and set him upon his legs. In a fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling,...
Page 9 - ... twill be enough to give your honour your death, and bring on your honour's torment in your groin. I fear so, replied my uncle Toby; but I am not at rest in my mind, Trim, since the account the landlord has given me. I wish I had not known so much of this affair, — added my uncle Toby, — or that I had known more of it: How shall we manage it?