The Works of Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781417922437
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: NO-I think I faid I would write two volumes every year, provided the vile cough which then tormented me, and which to this hour I dread worfe than the devil, would but give me leave;-and in another place-(but where, I can't recollect now) fpeaking of my book as a machine, and laying my pen and ruler down crofs-wife upon the table, in order to gain the greater credit to it-I fwore it fhould be kept a-going at that rate thefe forty years, if it pleafed but the Fountain of life to blefs me fo long with health and good fpirits.