Subsequently Sterne did duty both there and at Sutton.

When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?

He did not find Oxford wholly congenial to his intensely earnest spirit, but he read hard, and, as he afterwards said, " Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards ; passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

Sterne ’ s uncle was an ardent Whig, and urged Sterne to begin a career of political journalism which resulted in some scandal for Sterne and, eventually, a terminal falling-out between the two men.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

Sterne was at work on his celebrated comic novel during the year that his mother died, his wife was seriously ill, and he was ill himself with consumption.

Thus, Sterne lost his chances for clerical advancement but discovered his real talents ; until the completion of this first work, " he hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh ".

Translations of the work began to appear in all the major European languages almost upon its publication, and Sterne influenced European writers as diverse as Diderot and the German Romanticists.

They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stores, in 1929. and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.

They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stories, in 1929, and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.

This work is remarkable for its play with the reader's imagination, along the lines of Laurence Sterne, whom Xavier admired.

Journal to Eliza ( 1767 ) is a work by British author Laurence Sterne.

They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stores, in 1929. and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.

He directed the production of a vast work on Social England in 1893-1898 ; he wrote, for several series of biographies, studies of Coleridge ( 1884 ), Sterne ( 1882 ), William III ( 1888 ), Shaftesbury ( 1886 ), Strafford ( 1889 ), and Lord Salisbury ( 1891 ); he compiled a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer ( 1896 ); and after a visit to Egypt he published a volume on the country, and in 1897 appeared his book on Lord Cromer, the man who had done so much to bring it back to prosperity.

Sterne partially based the character of Slop on Dr John Burton ( 1710 – 71 ), author of An Essay towards a Complete System of Midwifery ( 1751 ), in which the engraved plates are the earliest published work of George Stubbs.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Roger's regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne ’ s birth, and within six months the family had returned to Yorkshire in northern England.

The publication of Tristram Shandy made Sterne famous in London and on the continent.

* Useful Articles on Laurence Sterne, available online

The performance was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Laurence Sterne ruminated on the possibilities of Momus ' window into the soul in a typical rambling excursus in Tristram Shandy.

* Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy: ruminations on Momus ' windows of glass, in Volume 1, chapter 23 ( text )

In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945 ( studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes ), books on London and works on Baudelaire ( 1929 ), Byron ( 1934 – 35 ), Pope ( 1949 ), Ruskin ( 1949 ), Hogarth ( 1955 ), Shakespeare ( 1963 ), Proust ( 1971 ) and Dr Johnson ( 1972 ).

The route of the chase is as follows: Senior Street W2, Clarendon Crescent W2, Harrow Road W9, Ladbroke Grove W10, Portobello Road W11, Ladbroke Grove W10, Royal Crescent W10, Portland Road W10, Penzance Place W10, Freston Road W10, Hythe Road NW10, Sterne Street W12-then a chase on foot into Wood Lane and then to White City Stadium.

Contentiously, Leavis, and his followers, excluded major authors such as Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and Thomas Hardy from his canon, but eventually he changed his position on Dickens, publishing Dickens the Novelist in 1970.

In the 1840s he often based works on the literary output of writers such as Charles Dickens, whose portrait he painted, and Laurence Sterne.

* Arthur H. Cash – SUNY Distinguished Professor and professor emeritus of English ; authority on Laurence Sterne

He wrote several books, including Life and Times of Laurence Sterne ( 1909 ) and The History of Henry Fielding ( 1918 ), and several books on the English novel.

When Charterite Tyrone Yates became a Democrat in preparation for running for the state legislature, Sterne found herself again the sole Charterite on the council.

In 1664 he was elected bishop of Carlisle, on the translation of Dr. Richard Sterne to York.

The first volume, titled Le Manuscript de Nicodemus ( The Manuscript of Nicodemus ), was drawn by René Sterne who suddenly died on November 15, 2006, delaying the publication of the book.

From 1642 Richard Sterne held the rectory of Yeovilton before going on to become Archbishop of York.

In the mid 18th century, the authors Laurence Sterne and John Hall-Stevenson enjoyed racing chariots on the sands at Saltburn.

The villagers ' cottages are on the slope, and at the top is St Michael's church, to which Sterne was appointed vicar in 1760.

Without Stevenson, Sterne might have been a more decorous parish priest, but then might never have written Tristram Shandy.

Sterne was gratified by his reception in France where reports of the genius of Tristram Shandy had made him a celebrity.

Sterne is best known for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, for which he became famous not only in England, but throughout Europe.

" This is strikingly different from the views of European critics of the day, who praised Sterne and Tristram Shandy as innovative and superior.

" Both during his life and for a long time after, efforts were made by many to reclaim Sterne as an arch-sentimentalist ; parts of Tristram Shandy, such as the tale of Le Fever, were excerpted and published separately to wide acclaim from the moralists of the day.

* From Sterne to Baldessari: The Illustration of Tristram Shandy, 1760 – 1996

* 1759 – 1767: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

In his novel Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne quotes extensively from Rabelais.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne and The Lady's Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift.

One of the earliest literary references to classical conditioning can be found in the comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( 1759 ) by Laurence Sterne.

He also accused Laurence Sterne of " pornography " for Tristram Shandy.

# Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy ; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

* Editor: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

* Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman vols i – ii.

Second, in 2006 Coogan starred with Rob Brydon in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a self-referential film of the " unfilmable " self-referential novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

* In Laurence Sterne ´ s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume I, Chapter II, there is a reference to the homunculus: "(...) the animal spirits, whose business it was to have escorted and gone hand-in-hand with the homunculus, and conducted him safe to the place destined for his reception.

# Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy ; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

* Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne