Author of Tristram Shandy, d. 1768

Usage examples of sterne.

When your favourite poets are Wordsworth, Arnold, and Clare, your novelists Fielding and Sterne, your artists Cotman and Bonington and Girtin, what place had you in this other world of eccentricity and revolt?

Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England.

Sterne was not living in a Paradisaical age, and he intentionally overstept the boundaries of decorum.

Sterne, and took comfort that the dinner seemed to disagree entirely with the periwigged fellow.

Er lag wach und sah zu, wie der Mond und die Sterne erstarben und die kalte Erde fahl wurde und vor dem freudlosen Wintermorgen erzitterte, und auf seinem Gesicht stand der Schmerz der einen, noch unverheilten Wunde.

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey AS GREATLY AS SHE WISHED it were not so, Abigail Adams was terrified of the sea.

Or how to describe adequately the delight of immersing oneself, as I have tried to do, in the writing of the eighteenth century--to read again after long years, or for the first time, the writers John Adams read and loved--Swift, Pope, Defoe, Addison, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson, and Voltaire?

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, a work that self-consciously recollects the novels of Sterne but also anticipates twentieth-century novels.

Lucianic tradition includes, among others, Erasmus, More, Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Diderot, Peacock, Jean Paul Richter, Machado de Assis, and such postmodern figures as Borges, Rushdie, and Kundera.

Sterne house on Hermosa, cut over to Austin Highway, and saw the lonely band of picketers keeping vigil outside Sterne Foods.

When many clergymen were lecherous drunks, like Churchill and Laurence Sterne, and in addition ministers, were urging mobs to burn women for witchcraft, freethinkers were likely to regard religion with suspicion if not with actual hatred.

Whatever was happening, it was moving away from him this time, but it reassured him to know that Sterne would be quietly guarding Yanys.

An keinem Feuer kann ich erwannen, Keine Sonne lacht mir mehr, Ist alles leer, Ist alles kalt und ohne Erbarmen, Und auch die lieben klaren Sterne schauen mich trostlos an, Seit ich im Herzen erfahren, Dass Liebe sterben kann.

His sonne Riuallo his dead roome did supply,In whose sad time bloud did from heauen raine:Next great Gurgustus, then faire CæcilyIn constant peace their kingdomes did containe,After whom Lago, and Kinmarke did raine,And Gorbogud, till farre in yeares he grew:Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaineArraught the rule, and from their father drew,Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw.

Yet therewith sore enrag'd, with sterne regardHer dreadfull weapon she to him addrest,Which on his helmet martelled so hard,That made him low incline his lofty crest,And bowd his battred visour to his brest:Wherewith he was so stund, that he n'ote ryde,But reeled to and fro from East to West:Which when his cruell enimy espyde,She lightly vnto him adioyned side to syde.