...testimony of an unfriendly witness to the popularity of Shandy : — " At present nothing is talked of, j nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling '...The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy." * * * The m»n's head, indeed, was a little turned before, no» topsy-turvy with his success and fame. Dods'ey...

...them Mr. Sterne, the author, was the English Rabelais. They had never heard of such a writer. Adieu! of nature in the manners of both Greeks and Romans,...consists in the whole narration always going backwards. I cannot conceive a man saying that it would be droll to write a book in that manner, but have no notion...

...has written " Hardyknute was the first poem that I ever learnt, the last that I shall forget." — E. of nature in the manners of both Greeks and Romans,...consists in the whole narration always going backwards. I cannot conceive a man saying that it would be droll to write a book in that manner, but have no notion...

...David Dalrymple," gives us the testimony of an unfriendly witness to the popularity of Shandy: — "At present nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid aud tedious performance ; it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy."...

...David Dalrymple," gives us the testimony of an unfriendly witness to the popularity of Shandy : — " At present nothing is talked of, nothing admired,...Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy." • * * The man's head, indeed, was a little turned before, now topsy-turvy with his success and fame. Dodiley...

...Tristram Shandy were published, and had a signal success. "At present," wrote Horace Walpole in April, " nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I...The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,' the great humor of which consists in the whole narration always going backward. It mikes one smile two or three...

...a little humble in forming our own opinions. Let us hear what Walpolo has to say of Sterne : — ' At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired,...backwards. I can conceive a man saying that it would bo droll to write a book in that manner, but have no notion in his persevering in executing it. It...

...a little humble in forming our own opinions. Let us hear what Walpole has to say of Sterne : — ' At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired,...a kind of novel, called ' The Life and Opinions of Triistnim Shandy ;' the great humour of which consists in the- whole narration always going backwards....

...removed from town-talk as Sir H. Mann was at Florence. " At present," he writes on the fourth of April, " nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I...help calling a very insipid and tedious performance ;'' whose chief merit, he says, consists in "going backwards." It made him smile "two or three times...

...removed from town-talk ;uj Sir II. Mann was at Florence. " At present," he writes on the fourth of April, "nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid dtul feiUniis jierf on/in nee ;" whose chief merit, he says, consists in " going backwards." It made...