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Goethe called Laurence Sterne "a model in nothing, in everything an awakener and suggester."
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The founders were voracious readers -- not only of theoretical tracts, but also of novels, such as Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.
LaCroix on "The Founder's Fiction" Dan Ernst 2009
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Paraphrase Laurence Sterne to the extent of mumbling how "they order this matter much better in Hyde Park or in the
Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909
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The claim could be made that not since Laurence Sterne's great 18th-century joke of a novel, "Tristram Shandy," has any book been so well-founded on the slippery rock of digression.
Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011
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When Laurence Sterne published the third volume of his masterpiece Tristram Shandy 250 years ago, his many fans were well prepared for his playful style.
Celebrated marbled image in Tristram Shandy inspires fundraising auction 2011
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The writer Laurence Sterne lived here from 1760 to 1768, but by then the paintings would have been panelled over and he would have never known of the secret story behind his walls.
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'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story' 2005 In Michael Winterbottom's giddy riff on Laurence Sterne's 18th-century comic novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," Steve Coogan plays three roles: the hero, Tristram Shandy; Tristram's father, Walter Shandy; and an actor named Steve Coogan, who is as vain as he is inane—all he cares about is the size of his part.
'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills Joe Morgenstern 2011
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'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story' 2005 In Michael Winterbottom's giddy riff on Laurence Sterne's 18th-century comic novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," Steve Coogan plays three roles: the hero, Tristram Shandy; Tristram's father, Walter Shandy; and an actor named Steve Coogan, who is as vain as he is inane—all he cares about is the size of his part.
'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills Joe Morgenstern 2011
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