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Sterne

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Sterne  (stûrn), Laurence 1713-1768.
British writer whose masterpiece Tristram Shandy (1761-1767) was a precursor to modern stream-of-consciousness novels.
Sterne [stɜːn]
n
(Biographies / Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) M, Englishnational of birth: Irish, WRITING: novelist) Laurence. 1713-68, English novelist, born in Ireland, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
Sterne (stɜrn)

n.
Laurence, 1713–68, English novelist and clergyman.
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Noun1.Sterne - English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)Sterne - English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
Laurence Sterne
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Indeed, she laughed, and said it was rather fun, "like something out of Sterne," --of such comfort is a literary reference in all seasons and circumstances,--and then she added, with a sweet look that sent the blood rioting about my heart, "It won't matter so much, will it, love, NOW?
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And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens -- there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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His tricks he had mostly at second- hand, and mainly from Sterne, whom I did not know well enough then to know their origin.
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