 | Laurence Sterne - 1926 - 324 页
...furthest borders of Franconia; and had got so far on his return home, when his ass died. Every one seemed desirous to know what business could have taken so...ill of the same distemper, he was afraid of being bereft of them all; and made a vow, if Heaven would not take him from him also, he would go in gratitude... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1927 - 304 页
...furthest borders of Franconia ; and had got so far on his return home, when his ass died. Every one seem'd desirous to know what business could have taken so...heaven, he said, to bless him with three sons, the fines!: lads in all Germany; but having in one week los"l two of the eldest of them by the small-pox,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 2006 - 284 页
...furthest borders of Franconia;3 and had got so far on his return home, when his ass died. Every one seem'd desirous to know what business could have taken so...week lost two of the eldest of them by the small-pox, 1 Sterne introduces an ass in 75, VII. 32 (" — But with an ass, I can commune for ever"), and here... | |
 | David Shuttleton - 2007 - 182 页
...a man mourning the loss of the faithful beast that has carried him on his own sentimental journey: 'it had pleased heaven, he said, to bless him with...the youngest falling ill of the same distemper' he 'made a vow, if Heaven would not take him from him also, he would go in gratitude to St. lago of Spain'.40... | |
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Every one seemed desirous to know what business could have taken so old and poor a man so far a journey from his own home. It had pleased heaven... 
