 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...hour or two at least after the time that his silence upon it becomes tormenting. A course of small quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm — nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it — leaves Nature for your... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...hour or two at least after the time that his silence upon it becomes tormenting ! A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm— nor so vague as to be misunderstood — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it leaves Nature for your... | |
 | Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1808 - 758 pages
...lips, till an hour or two after his si* lence has become, visibly, tormenting. " A course of small quiet attentions— not so pointed as to alarm— nor so vague as to be misunderstood — with, now and then, a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it — leaves * 6 nature... | |
 | Ann Mary Hamilton - 1811 - 672 pages
...those little delicate attentions which, as one of our favourite authors expresses it, " are neither so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood," began by slow degrees to open my eyes as to the nature of his sentiments for me. How did my heart throb... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...hour or two at least after the time that his silence upon it becomes tormenting ! A course of small, quiet attx — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upit, — leaves Nature for your... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...hour or two at least after the time that his silence upon it becomes tormenting ! A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upit, — leaves Nature for your... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...hour or two at least after the time that bis silence upon it becomes tormenting ! A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, — nor so vague as to be misunderstood, — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, — leaves Nature for... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...Didacus or Diego (in Spanish Jamei),ofAndalutia, 1463. St. S. Kostka, of Poland, 1568. A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm — nor so vague as to be misunderstood — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it — leaves nature for... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1832 - 384 pages
...least after the time that his silence upon it becomes tormenting ! A course of small, quiet attention, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, — with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, — leaves nature for... | |
 | James Boaden - Authors, English - 1833 - 406 pages
...subject of considerable moment to her. A Mr. Sterling, it appears, had performed lago on the night of their benefit ; and by a course " of quiet attentions,...woman. Mr. Inchbald, for reasons best known to himself, aboul this time frequently absented himself from his home, and Mr. Sterling on these occasions invariably... | |
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A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind. 
