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Preview — English Men of Letters, Vol. English Men of Letters, Vol. Excerpt from English Men of Letters, Vol. Sterne; Swift; Hume The materials for a biography of Sterne are by no means abundant.
Of the earlier years of his life the only exist ing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, he com posed, in the usual quaint staccato style of his familiar cor respondence, for the ben Excerpt from English Men of Letters, Vol. Of the earlier years of his life the only exist ing record is that preserved in the brief autobiographical memoir which, a few months before his death, he com posed, in the usual quaint staccato style of his familiar cor respondence, for the benefit of his daughter.
Of his child hood; of his school-days; of his life at Cambridge, and in his Yorkshire vicarage; of his whole history, in fact, up to the age of forty-six, we know nothing more than he has there jotted down. He attained that age in the year ; and at this date begins that series of his Letters, from which, for those who have the patience to sort them out of the chronological confusion in which his daughter and editress involved them, there is, no doubt, a good deal to be learnt. These letters, however, which extend down to , the year of the writer's death, contain pretty nearly all the contemporary material that we have to depend on.
Freely as Sterne mixed in the best literary society, there is singularly little to be gathered about him, even in the way of chance allusion and anecdote, from the memoirs and am.
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