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Pagina 48
... worse frighten'd than hurt by the very report- -What a want of knowledge in this branch of commerce a man betrays , whoever lets the word come out of his lips , till an hour or two at least after the time , that his filence upon it be ...
... worse frighten'd than hurt by the very report- -What a want of knowledge in this branch of commerce a man betrays , whoever lets the word come out of his lips , till an hour or two at least after the time , that his filence upon it be ...
Pagina 52
... the grand porti- co of the pantheon - he was just coming out of it - Tis nothing but a huge cock- pit * , said he — I wish you had faid no- Vide S ' s Travels , thing worse of the Venus of Medicis , replied I 52 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
... the grand porti- co of the pantheon - he was just coming out of it - Tis nothing but a huge cock- pit * , said he — I wish you had faid no- Vide S ' s Travels , thing worse of the Venus of Medicis , replied I 52 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
Pagina 53
... worse than St. Bartholomew , at every stage he had come at -I'll tell it , cried Smelfungus , to the world . You had better tell it , faid I , to your phyfician . Mundungus , with an immense for- tune , made the whole tour ; going on ...
... worse than St. Bartholomew , at every stage he had come at -I'll tell it , cried Smelfungus , to the world . You had better tell it , faid I , to your phyfician . Mundungus , with an immense for- tune , made the whole tour ; going on ...
Pagina 64
... worse by night . 1 Now , when things were at the worst , it came to pass , that the Andromeda of Euripides being reprefented at Abdera , the whole orcheftra was delighted with it : but of all the paffages which delight- ed them ...
... worse by night . 1 Now , when things were at the worst , it came to pass , that the Andromeda of Euripides being reprefented at Abdera , the whole orcheftra was delighted with it : but of all the paffages which delight- ed them ...
Pagina 107
... worse than a Ger- man . دو - The French officer might as well have faid it all aloud : and if he had , I should in course have put the bow I made him into French too , and told him , " I was fenfible of his attention , and return'd ...
... worse than a Ger- man . دو - The French officer might as well have faid it all aloud : and if he had , I should in course have put the bow I made him into French too , and told him , " I was fenfible of his attention , and return'd ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 137 - 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. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement...
Pagina 137 - 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.
Pagina 132 - Make the most of it you can, said I to myself, the Bastile is but another word for a tower ;— and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of. — Mercy on the gouty ! for they are in it twice a year. — But with nine livres a day, and pen and ink and paper and patience, albeit a man can't get out, he may do very well within...
Pagina 220 - Shorn indeed ! and to the quick," said I ; " and wast thou in my own land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread, and drink of my own cup.
Pagina 136 - I took a single captive; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Pagina 133 - I looked 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,
Pagina 220 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Pagina 224 - ... 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...
Pagina 89 - I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and looking through the glass saw all the world in yellow, blue, and green, running at the ring of pleasure.