 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pages
...feelings. I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon ; he was just coming out of it. ' 'Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit,'* said he. 'I wish you...Medicis,' replied I ; for in passing through Florence, 1 had heard he had fallen upon the goddess, and used her worse than a common strumpet, without the... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pages
...worse of the Venus of Medicis,' replied I ; for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen upon the goddess, and used her worse than a common...strumpet, without the least provocation in nature. VOL. \. H " I popp'd upon Smelfungus again at Turin, in his return home ; and a sad tale of sorrowful... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 434 pages
...SmelfunguB in the grand portico of the Pantheon ;' he was just coming out of it. ' Tie nothing bat » huge cock-pit,' said he. 'I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Mediéis,' replied I ; for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen upon the goddess,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pages
...I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon — he was just coming out of it — ' It is nothing but a huge cockpit,' said he. ' I wish you...and used her worse than a common strumpet, without ihe least provocation in nature. I popped upon Smelfungus again at Turin, in his return home, and sad... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1870 - 666 pages
...us, " I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon, — he was just coming out of it. ' 'Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit^ said he. I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Mediéis, replied I ; for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1870 - 668 pages
...us, " I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon, — he was just coming out of it. ' 'Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit] said he. I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Mediéis, replied I ; for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 446 pages
...feelings. I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon:—he was just coming out of it.—'Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit^ said he. I wish you had...said nothing worse of the Venus of Medicis, replied I;—for in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used her... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1878 - 394 pages
...but a huge cockpit,' said he. 'I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus Medicis,' I replied ; for, in passing through Florence, I had heard he had...goddess, and used her worse than a common strumpet." Mrs. Sharpe repeatedly saw the novelist, and indeed figures among the characters incidentally referred... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1878 - 392 pages
...feelings. I met Smellfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon : he was just coming out of it. 'It is nothing but a huge cockpit,' said he. 'I wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus Medicis/ I replied ; for, in passing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 pages
...portico of the Pantheon : — he was just coming out of it. 'Tis nothing lut a huge cock-pit* said he. 1 wish you had said nothing worse of the Venus of Medicis,...strumpet, without the least provocation in nature. I popped upon Smelfungus again at Turin, in his return home ; and a sad tale of sorrowful adventures... | |
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He wrote an account of them ; but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings. I met Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon : he was just coming out of it. 'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit,* said he. 
