A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... writer : - As Mr. Sterne , in the foregoing narrative , hath brought down the account of himself until within a few months of his death , it remains only to mention that he left York about the end of the year 1767 , and came to London ...
... writer : - As Mr. Sterne , in the foregoing narrative , hath brought down the account of himself until within a few months of his death , it remains only to mention that he left York about the end of the year 1767 , and came to London ...
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... writer of the preceding obtained from him several little circumstances relative to his master , as well as the characters depicted by him , a few of which , as they would lose by abridgment , I shall give verbatim . " There were moments ...
... writer of the preceding obtained from him several little circumstances relative to his master , as well as the characters depicted by him , a few of which , as they would lose by abridgment , I shall give verbatim . " There were moments ...
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... writers , and to pass their wit and learning for his own , was the more unworthy in Sterne , as he had enough of original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram ...
... writers , and to pass their wit and learning for his own , was the more unworthy in Sterne , as he had enough of original talent , had he chosen to exert it , to have dispensed with all such acts of literary petty larceny . Tristram ...
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... writers . In the power of approach- ing and touching the finer feelings of the heart , he has never been excelled , if indeed he has ever been equalled ; and may be at once recorded as one of the most affected , and one of the most ...
... writers . In the power of approach- ing and touching the finer feelings of the heart , he has never been excelled , if indeed he has ever been equalled ; and may be at once recorded as one of the most affected , and one of the most ...
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... writers whom he has a mind to expose . I shall produce one instance ; it is towards the end of the Introduction . Dryden , L'Estrange , and some others I shall not name , are here levelled at , who , having spent their lives in faction ...
... writers whom he has a mind to expose . I shall produce one instance ; it is towards the end of the Introduction . Dryden , L'Estrange , and some others I shall not name , are here levelled at , who , having spent their lives in faction ...
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