The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne, 1. kötetClonmel Society, 1904 |
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xviii. oldal
... answer in the main also for Sutton - he wrote to a friend : " I am as happy as a prince , * * * and I wish you could see in how princely a manner I live — ' tis a land of plenty . I sit down alone to venison , fish and wild fowl , or a ...
... answer in the main also for Sutton - he wrote to a friend : " I am as happy as a prince , * * * and I wish you could see in how princely a manner I live — ' tis a land of plenty . I sit down alone to venison , fish and wild fowl , or a ...
xli. oldal
... answer was " a pshaw ! - and if the subject was started in the fields , with a hop , skip , and a jump at the end of it . " Again , when Yorick is at Calais he represents himself as engaging in a debate with the bad propensities of his ...
... answer was " a pshaw ! - and if the subject was started in the fields , with a hop , skip , and a jump at the end of it . " Again , when Yorick is at Calais he represents himself as engaging in a debate with the bad propensities of his ...
15. oldal
... answer for Venus ) than it has in this vile , dirty planet of ours , — which , o ' my conscience , with reverence be it spoken , I take to be made up of the shreds and clippings of the rest ; -not but the planet is well enough ...
... answer for Venus ) than it has in this vile , dirty planet of ours , — which , o ' my conscience , with reverence be it spoken , I take to be made up of the shreds and clippings of the rest ; -not but the planet is well enough ...
29. oldal
... answered his description to a hair - breadth in everything , -except that I do not remember ' tis any where said , that Ro- sinante was broken - winded ; and that , more- over , Rosinante , as is the happiness of most Spanish horses ...
... answered his description to a hair - breadth in everything , -except that I do not remember ' tis any where said , that Ro- sinante was broken - winded ; and that , more- over , Rosinante , as is the happiness of most Spanish horses ...
48. oldal
... answer with a pshaw ! -and if the subject was started in the fields , with a hop , skip and a jump at the end of it ; but if close pent up in the social chimney - corner , where the culprit was barricado'd in , with a table and a couple ...
... answer with a pshaw ! -and if the subject was started in the fields , with a hop , skip and a jump at the end of it ; but if close pent up in the social chimney - corner , where the culprit was barricado'd in , with a table and a couple ...
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206. oldal - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
185. oldal - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head. Go," says he, liftin<* up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke to let it escape.
9. oldal - A MAN'S body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining; — rumple the one — you rumple the other. There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a sarcenet or thin Persian.
5. oldal - I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing; — that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind...
21. oldal - ... so long as a man rides his HOBBY-HORSE peaceably and quietly along the king's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
60. oldal - Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, — straight forward ; for instance, from Rome all the way to Loretto, without ever once turning his head aside either to the right hand or to the left, he might venture to foretell you to an hour when he should get to his journey's end; but the thing is, morally speaking, impossible...
43. oldal - Great Apollo! if thou art in a giving humour - give me - I ask no more, but one stroke of native humour, with a single spark of thy own fire along with it - and send Mercury, with the rules and compasses, if he can be spared, with my compliments to - no matter.