Laurence Sterne: The Making of a Humorist, 1713-1762 |
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Page 28
... less whimsically expressed , are based on the same standard of values as in his novel , he gives a plain , straightforward account of his preferences in the matter of Rhetoric . " There are [ he writes here ] two sorts of eloquence ...
... less whimsically expressed , are based on the same standard of values as in his novel , he gives a plain , straightforward account of his preferences in the matter of Rhetoric . " There are [ he writes here ] two sorts of eloquence ...
Page 118
... less vivid , though not entirely unoriginal , discourse on much the same theme of morality and religion . There is indeed much good sense , but little breadth of vision , in Sterne's conception of ' the pure and spiritualised happiness ...
... less vivid , though not entirely unoriginal , discourse on much the same theme of morality and religion . There is indeed much good sense , but little breadth of vision , in Sterne's conception of ' the pure and spiritualised happiness ...
Page 130
... less abound wh variety of ye accommodations of life . An hour or a minute to a creature of that duration may appear as long as 4 score and 10 years to us , and be fill'd with as numerous and no less intense enjoyments and troubles . So ...
... less abound wh variety of ye accommodations of life . An hour or a minute to a creature of that duration may appear as long as 4 score and 10 years to us , and be fill'd with as numerous and no less intense enjoyments and troubles . So ...
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