A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Band 2

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T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768 - 208 Seiten
 

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Seite 27 - Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I -Still thou art a bitter draught! and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account.
Seite 30 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred.
Seite 191 - His wife sung now and then a little to the tune, then intermitted, and joined her old man again as their children and grandchildren danced before them.
Seite 169 - Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.
Seite 31 - ... 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.
Seite 26 - ... home. Mechanical as the notes were, yet so true in tune to nature were they chanted, that in one moment they overthrew all my systematic reasonings upon the Bastile ; and I heavily walked up stairs, unsaying every word I had said in going down them.
Seite 173 - I felt such undescribable emotions within me, as I am sure could not be accounted for from any combinations of matter and motion.
Seite 24 - 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,
Seite 179 - together." Maria put her arm within mine, and lengthening the string, to let the dog follow — in that order we entered Moulines.

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