During this period Sterne never lived in one place for more than a year.

Voltaire called it " clearly superior to Rabelais ", and later Goethe praised Sterne as " the most beautiful spirit that ever lived.

In the village there is Elvington Hall, built during Elizabethan times and remodelled in the 18th century by John Carr ; famous writer Laurence Sterne lived there for a period of his childhood ; Roger Jacques and Simone Sterne, his grandparents, controlled the manor prior to 1700.

The witnesses were Max Weber and Maurice Sterne, friends and painters who both lived in New York.

Nearby is Shandy Hall, the house where Sterne lived from 1760 to 1768, and playfully named by him.

Subsequently Sterne did duty both there and at Sutton.

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.

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.

In 1741 – 42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

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 ".

Sterne continued to struggle with his illness, and departed England for France in 1762 in an effort to find a climate that would alleviate his suffering.

Sterne was lucky to attach himself to a diplomatic party bound for Turin, as England and France were still adversaries in the Seven Years ' War.

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.

" 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.

* Bibliography for the study of Laurence Sterne

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.

In 1833, in the living room of the Adolphus Sterne House in Nacogdoches, Houston was baptized into the Catholic faith in order to qualify under the existing law for property ownership in Coahuila y Tejas.

Among his friends and acquaintances were many English artists and satirists of the period, for instance, Francis Hayman, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne.

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 ).

He won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's Himmel ohne Sterne.

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

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 "?

* 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.

Kazinczy, known for possessing great beauty of style, was inspired greatly by the masterpieces of Lessing, Goethe, Wieland, Klopstock, Ossian, La Rochefoucauld, Marmontel, Molière, Metastasio, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cicero, Sallust, Anacreon, and many others.

Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.

Sterne did not begin work on Tristram Shandy until he was 46 years old.

Several volumes of letters were published after his death, as was Journal to Eliza, a more sentimental than humorous love letter to a woman Sterne was courting during the final years of his life.

Sterne gives few biographical details relating to Slawkenbergius, but states that he was German, and that he had died over 90 years prior to the writing and publication ( in 1761 ) of the books of Tristram Shandy in which he appears — i. e., circa 1670, although Slawkenbergius ' tale includes a reference to the French annexation of Strasbourg in 1681.

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.

The novel was written during a period in which Sterne was increasingly ill and weak.

Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne, became a " cult " object in England and throughout Europe, with important cultural consequences among those who could afford to purchase books during the era of its publication.

( Sterne met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness.

Jacques Sterne DD, who had Burton arrested upon suspicion of sedition during the rebellion of 1745.

Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist and his Master ), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will.

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.

Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne ’ s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was published at the beginning of 1768.

Indeed, the novel, in which Sterne manipulates narrative time and voice, parodies accepted narrative form, and includes a healthy dose of " bawdy " humor, was largely dismissed in England as being too corrupt.

The sentimental key in which the book is written shows the author's acquaintance with Sterne and Richardson, but he had neither the humour of Sterne nor the subtle insight into character of Richardson.

In addition to literary criticism and biographies about such authors as Laurence Sterne, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, he wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works disguised as fiction, which also served as experiments in his developing theories of literature.

These letters, modelled after Irish-born Poet, Laurence Sterne ´ s Sentimental Journey, were first printed in the Moscow Journal, which he edited, but were later collected and issued in six volumes ( 1797 – 1801 ).

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

Laurence Sterne, who met Smollett in Italy, satirized Smollett's jaundiced attitude in the character of Smelfungus in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was written in part as an answer to Smollett's book.

But these cities pale in comparison to the cities of the deep Southland, that formed the core of the Federation, cities such as Arishaig ( the Federation capital ) Wayford, Sterne, Dechtera, Pia, and Zolomach, all of which are sprawling industrialized cities.

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.