Laurence Sterne: The Making of a Humorist, 1713-1762 |
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... writes , it is the plain and simple duty of a biographer to keep all material thus collected strictly within its context . Only in this way can we reach the conclusion that Sterne's sensibility , so far from being the sign of weakness ...
... writes , it is the plain and simple duty of a biographer to keep all material thus collected strictly within its context . Only in this way can we reach the conclusion that Sterne's sensibility , so far from being the sign of weakness ...
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... writes to his friend Mr Digby : ' Why will you ever , of your own accord , end such a millenary year in London ? transmigrate ( if I may call it so ) into other creatures in that scene of folly militant ? ... Do not talk of the decay of ...
... writes to his friend Mr Digby : ' Why will you ever , of your own accord , end such a millenary year in London ? transmigrate ( if I may call it so ) into other creatures in that scene of folly militant ? ... Do not talk of the decay of ...
Page 48
... [ writes the ascetic ] . . . fasten not the anchor of the shippe of thine hearte in the sea of worldlie love . . . the lover of God loveth little company . ' Sterne would close the book , but keep the friar's precepts in mind to answer ...
... [ writes the ascetic ] . . . fasten not the anchor of the shippe of thine hearte in the sea of worldlie love . . . the lover of God loveth little company . ' Sterne would close the book , but keep the friar's precepts in mind to answer ...
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