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Page 29
... believe that the desire to rehabilitate Sterne may even have made him less accessible as a writer . If I present him as an equivocal , unreliable , evasive and unappetizing man it is not out of moral censoriousness . I believe , however ...
... believe that the desire to rehabilitate Sterne may even have made him less accessible as a writer . If I present him as an equivocal , unreliable , evasive and unappetizing man it is not out of moral censoriousness . I believe , however ...
Page 66
... believe it is a disservice to Sterne to omit the element of opportunism in his life and fiction . Sterne's genius is elemental but passive : like liquid it takes the shape of whatever vessel it is poured into . If he ever envisaged any ...
... believe it is a disservice to Sterne to omit the element of opportunism in his life and fiction . Sterne's genius is elemental but passive : like liquid it takes the shape of whatever vessel it is poured into . If he ever envisaged any ...
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... believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so at her return [ to York ] she fell into a consumption - and one evening that I was sitting by her with an almost broken heart to see her so ill , she said , ' my ...
... believe then she was partly determined to have me , but would not say so at her return [ to York ] she fell into a consumption - and one evening that I was sitting by her with an almost broken heart to see her so ill , she said , ' my ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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