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Page 13
... body and under- standing , but did so in such terms that he sometimes sounds like a medievalist composing the humours of the personality . The more one reads Sterne , the less satisfactory it seems to place him on a time scale . His ...
... body and under- standing , but did so in such terms that he sometimes sounds like a medievalist composing the humours of the personality . The more one reads Sterne , the less satisfactory it seems to place him on a time scale . His ...
Page 189
... partake of its nature , it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro ' its channels , and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.'50 1761 Sterne did not set out again for London until 1760 189.
... partake of its nature , it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro ' its channels , and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.'50 1761 Sterne did not set out again for London until 1760 189.
Page 279
... body had been robbed as it lay in its lodgings . But most sensational of all was the report that Sterne's body had been stolen from the burial ground and sold to the anatomy school at a university . The most telling account of this ...
... body had been robbed as it lay in its lodgings . But most sensational of all was the report that Sterne's body had been stolen from the burial ground and sold to the anatomy school at a university . The most telling account of this ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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