Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers: With Critical and Biographical Notices of the AuthorsR. Griffin, 1827 - 424 pàgines |
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... might be ashamed , had they any shame in them , to offer such an affront to gentlewomen . They answered him with mocks and scoffs , and without far- ther misdemeaning themselves , they went forward on their way 2 CERVANTES .
... might be ashamed , had they any shame in them , to offer such an affront to gentlewomen . They answered him with mocks and scoffs , and without far- ther misdemeaning themselves , they went forward on their way 2 CERVANTES .
Pàgina 6
... answer to these my demands ; and if thou art afraid that I may chance to know thee by thy voice , I would have thee again to know , that , excepting my father and my confessor , I have not spoken with any man in my life , and very few ...
... answer to these my demands ; and if thou art afraid that I may chance to know thee by thy voice , I would have thee again to know , that , excepting my father and my confessor , I have not spoken with any man in my life , and very few ...
Pàgina 13
... answered , Well , save that he was much pained in his body , and his head . The surgeon advised them , that they should not speak unto him , but that they would give him leave to take his rest . They did so ; and then his grandfather be ...
... answered , Well , save that he was much pained in his body , and his head . The surgeon advised them , that they should not speak unto him , but that they would give him leave to take his rest . They did so ; and then his grandfather be ...
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... answer to her demand . * The confession of those two was the key which opened the door to all the doubts , which in such a case could offer themselves ; and therefore she resolved with herself , to bring that good purpose which she had ...
... answer to her demand . * The confession of those two was the key which opened the door to all the doubts , which in such a case could offer themselves ; and therefore she resolved with herself , to bring that good purpose which she had ...
Pàgina 21
... answer : • When I returned and came to myself from out another swooning , I found myself , dear Sir , in your arms without mine honour ; but I think it now well employed since that in this my last coming to myself , I find myself in the ...
... answer : • When I returned and came to myself from out another swooning , I found myself , dear Sir , in your arms without mine honour ; but I think it now well employed since that in this my last coming to myself , I find myself in the ...
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Pàgina 239 - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, — rallied back...
Pàgina 238 - said my uncle Toby firmly. ' ' A-well-o'-day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G— ," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Pàgina 234 - Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier, said I, 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...
Pàgina 233 - I was answered, an' please your Honour, that he had no servant with him; that he had come to the inn with hired horses, which, upon finding himself, unable to proceed (to join, I suppose, the regiment), he had dismissed the morning after he came. If I get better, my dear...
Pàgina 28 - Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Pàgina 30 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pàgina 237 - In the second place, for which, indeed, thou hast the same excuse, 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...
Pàgina 235 - If you are Captain Shandy's servant, said he, you must present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks along with them, for his courtesy to me; — if he was of Leven's — said the lieutenant. — I told him your honour was — Then...
Pàgina 237 - Dendermond to itself — to be relieved or not by the French king, as the French king thought good; and only considered how he himself should relieve the poor lieutenant and his son. That kind BEING, who is a friend to the friendless, shall recompence thee for this. Thou hast left this matter short...
Pàgina 172 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase : the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy ; I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and, after having...