 | Laurence Sterne - 1906 - 402 pages
...owing to a thoughtless passage in one of Walpole's conversations with Mr Pinkerton, — ' I know from indubitable authority that his mother, who kept a...account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in a jail if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her. Her own son had too much... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 2006 - 284 pages
...circulated about Sterne, that he had neglected his mother. Horace Walpole gave it epigrammatic longevity: "Her son had too much sentiment to have any feeling....ass was more important to him than a living mother." Byron's version has even more bite: "Ah, I am as bad as that dog Sterne, who preferred whining over... | |
 | Martha F. Bowden - England - 2007 - 300 pages
...just enough of the details correct for it to have had currency for more than a century: "I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a...her scholars had not raised a subscription for her" (Letters, 44nl9). When it comes to gossip, indubitable authorities should above all be distrusted.... | |
 | Ireland - 1863 - 806 pages
...kept a school, having run iu debt on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in a gaol, if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her. Her own son," Mr. Walpole epigrammatic-ally goes on, " had too much sentiment to have any feeling. A dead... | |
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CCLXV. SENTIMENT. WHAT is called sentimental writing, though it be understood to appeal solely to the heart, may be the product of a bad one. One would imagine that Sterne had been a man of a very tender heart; yet I know, from indubitable authority,... 
