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Comments On Sterne.
them Tvitiirn ® : tec if a limb ., -era fet-nre- of snv oek , sitmSS appear to ' lie pnrloiJiedfrom thelaboBrs of afranjeyaciiit , ii we « ft $ ter ^ Mta loot for hi a mark , in tracing some of Sieme ' s adesis to other writera ,, I lib not JVJS ' SB to treat him as a Plagiarist ; I wish to illmrrat * ,, wo-t to degrade him . If some instances of copying be proved agarasi } iira , llscy trill detract nothing fro MI bis genkwand will only lessen that
impci-sag-, appearance he sometimes assstsse-d , of eraditioss ¦ y / his h hs really wanted . It is obvious to every one , who considers Tristram Sr 3 nrst ? y a-s n general Satire , levelled -chiefly agaiswt tfee afaus * of spirenlalLve-oprjaons , that Rabelais furnished Sterne rskh the general character , and even many particular ideasof his -work . Frora tint tfopiwis
, , fountain of learning , wit anal whim , otjr atsthosr drew deeply . . Kabeliiis , stored with erudition , potsrefi lavishly out , what Sierae directed and expanded with care , to enrich his p : ig * S't . And to this appropriation , we owe mauy of his SBost pleasing salUes . For being bounded in his literary aeqairements , his ranagtnatism had : freer play , and more natural graces . He seized the grotestRie- objects of
obsolete erudition , presented by hi & © ngisiai , -with avigaxu vsntarneil by previous labour , and an ardour unabated by familiarity with literal y folly . The ' curioizs Chapters on . Noses § afford the saoagest
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Comments On Sterne.
them Tvitiirn ® : tec if a limb ., -era fet-nre- of snv oek , sitmSS appear to ' lie pnrloiJiedfrom thelaboBrs of afranjeyaciiit , ii we « ft $ ter ^ Mta loot for hi a mark , in tracing some of Sieme ' s adesis to other writera ,, I lib not JVJS ' SB to treat him as a Plagiarist ; I wish to illmrrat * ,, wo-t to degrade him . If some instances of copying be proved agarasi } iira , llscy trill detract nothing fro MI bis genkwand will only lessen that
impci-sag-, appearance he sometimes assstsse-d , of eraditioss ¦ y / his h hs really wanted . It is obvious to every one , who considers Tristram Sr 3 nrst ? y a-s n general Satire , levelled -chiefly agaiswt tfee afaus * of spirenlalLve-oprjaons , that Rabelais furnished Sterne rskh the general character , and even many particular ideasof his -work . Frora tint tfopiwis
, , fountain of learning , wit anal whim , otjr atsthosr drew deeply . . Kabeliiis , stored with erudition , potsrefi lavishly out , what Sierae directed and expanded with care , to enrich his p : ig * S't . And to this appropriation , we owe mauy of his SBost pleasing salUes . For being bounded in his literary aeqairements , his ranagtnatism had : freer play , and more natural graces . He seized the grotestRie- objects of
obsolete erudition , presented by hi & © ngisiai , -with avigaxu vsntarneil by previous labour , and an ardour unabated by familiarity with literal y folly . The ' curioizs Chapters on . Noses § afford the saoagest