The Beauties of Sterne: Including All His Pathetic Tales, and Most Distinguished Observations on Life. Selected for the Heart of SensibilityS. Colbert, 1784 - 276 pages |
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... - which generofity , he fays , overpowered him . She recovered , and they were married 1741 . His uncle got him the prebendary of York ; and through through his wife's intereft he got the living of Stillington 16 THE LIFE OF STERNE .
... - which generofity , he fays , overpowered him . She recovered , and they were married 1741 . His uncle got him the prebendary of York ; and through through his wife's intereft he got the living of Stillington 16 THE LIFE OF STERNE .
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... she does , -added my uncle Toby , embracing him , come back again to me , Le Fe- ver , and we will fhape thee another courfe . The The greatest injury could not have oppreffed the heart of 54 THE BEAUTIES OF STERNE .
... she does , -added my uncle Toby , embracing him , come back again to me , Le Fe- ver , and we will fhape thee another courfe . The The greatest injury could not have oppreffed the heart of 54 THE BEAUTIES OF STERNE .
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... she , laying afide her work I had given a caft with my eye into half a do- zen shops as I came along in fearch of a face not likely to be difordered by fuch an interruption ;. till at last , this hitting my fancy , I had walked in . She ...
... she , laying afide her work I had given a caft with my eye into half a do- zen shops as I came along in fearch of a face not likely to be difordered by fuch an interruption ;. till at last , this hitting my fancy , I had walked in . She ...
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... She repeated her inftru & tions three times over to me with the fame good - natured patience the third time as the firft ; -and if tones and manners have a meaning , which certainly they have ; unless to hearts which fhut them out - she ...
... She repeated her inftru & tions three times over to me with the fame good - natured patience the third time as the firft ; -and if tones and manners have a meaning , which certainly they have ; unless to hearts which fhut them out - she ...
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... she called a lad out of the back fhop to get ready a parcel of gloves . I am just going to fend , him , faid fhe , with a packet into that quarter , and if you will have the com- plaifance to step in , it will be ready in a moment , and ...
... she called a lad out of the back fhop to get ready a parcel of gloves . I am just going to fend , him , faid fhe , with a packet into that quarter , and if you will have the com- plaifance to step in , it will be ready in a moment , and ...
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Page 167 - 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 167 - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on...
Page 156 - 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 fellowcreatures 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 a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to...
Page 44 - I served three campaigns with him in Flanders, and remember him, but 'tis most likely, as I had not the honour of any acquaintance with him, that he knows nothing of me. You will tell him, however, that the person his good nature has laid under obligations to him, is one Le Fevre, a lieutenant in Angus's — but he knows me not...
Page 44 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby ; he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears like the name of a friend : I wish I had him here. I never in the longest march, said the Corporal, had so great a mind to my dinner, as I had to cry with him for company. What could be the matter with me, an...
Page 72 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
Page 108 - Maria deserve, than to have her Banns forbid, by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them...
Page 44 - 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, he might march. He will never march; an...
Page 44 - Tis finished already, said the corporal, for I could stay no longer, so wished his honour a good night. Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs ; and as we went down together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. But, alas ! said the corporal, the lieutenant's last day's march is over.
Page 44 - ... 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?