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... mind , which no skill of the physician or the philosopher could ever afterwards have set thoroughly to rights.34 Many critics have thought it whimsical and sportive of Sterne to begin with Tristram before birth . Certainly the passage ...
... mind , which no skill of the physician or the philosopher could ever afterwards have set thoroughly to rights.34 Many critics have thought it whimsical and sportive of Sterne to begin with Tristram before birth . Certainly the passage ...
Page 63
... mind is so stimulated by ideas , what need does it have of reality ? Walter Shandy demonstrates his thesis by asking Trim to consider a white bear . But he has never seen one , reasons Toby . Walter is unabashed : the properly agile mind ...
... mind is so stimulated by ideas , what need does it have of reality ? Walter Shandy demonstrates his thesis by asking Trim to consider a white bear . But he has never seen one , reasons Toby . Walter is unabashed : the properly agile mind ...
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... mind . But the ' magic of a warm Mind ' and actual independence began to reduce Sterne's London anguish , and mellowed him until he sounded like a contented married man . To find such nourishment in the company of ghosts may have made ...
... mind . But the ' magic of a warm Mind ' and actual independence began to reduce Sterne's London anguish , and mellowed him until he sounded like a contented married man . To find such nourishment in the company of ghosts may have made ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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