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Page 42
... called it ' a picturesque wreck of a hole ' , 23 but the biographer who travels across Ireland to it will be surprised how much sense of what it once was Clonmel retains . Compared with most other Irish towns of the same size , it has ...
... called it ' a picturesque wreck of a hole ' , 23 but the biographer who travels across Ireland to it will be surprised how much sense of what it once was Clonmel retains . Compared with most other Irish towns of the same size , it has ...
Page 137
... called Sancho . When out in the fields one day he unfortunately shot the dog's tail off and thereafter called it San - cu . The joke and the allusion to one of Sterne's favourite authors suggests that he may be the subject of this story ...
... called Sancho . When out in the fields one day he unfortunately shot the dog's tail off and thereafter called it San - cu . The joke and the allusion to one of Sterne's favourite authors suggests that he may be the subject of this story ...
Page 276
... called on him two days before his death met two ladies on the stairs and one more in the room with the patient : a girl called Fanny who ' withdrew to a window ' . ' Had you come sooner , ' said Sterne , ' you might have seen thirteen ...
... called on him two days before his death met two ladies on the stairs and one more in the room with the patient : a girl called Fanny who ' withdrew to a window ' . ' Had you come sooner , ' said Sterne , ' you might have seen thirteen ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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