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Page 148
... sermons was a very serious trade in the eighteenth century . They were not only bought by other clerics , just as Sterne himself had a large library of printed sermons to draw on , but occupied a secure position on the reading lists of ...
... sermons was a very serious trade in the eighteenth century . They were not only bought by other clerics , just as Sterne himself had a large library of printed sermons to draw on , but occupied a secure position on the reading lists of ...
Page 149
... sermons have been unreasonably deplored by so many writers on Sterne and because the oratorical situation contributes so much to the voice and direction of Sterne's fiction . The general nineteenth - century opinion of Sterne's sermons ...
... sermons have been unreasonably deplored by so many writers on Sterne and because the oratorical situation contributes so much to the voice and direction of Sterne's fiction . The general nineteenth - century opinion of Sterne's sermons ...
Page 151
... sermons reveals two things : that the sermon has no equal as a crossbred form , and that Sterne's ' imitations ' , borrowings and thefts do not detract from his originality . In the Preface to his first two volumes of sermons , Sterne ...
... sermons reveals two things : that the sermon has no equal as a crossbred form , and that Sterne's ' imitations ' , borrowings and thefts do not detract from his originality . In the Preface to his first two volumes of sermons , Sterne ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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