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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
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The Captive, from Sterne is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby completed in 1774 and now in the National Gallery of Canada. Sterne's Captive, first exhibited by the artist in 1778, is a similar painting by Wright in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. The latter painting resulted in a rare engraving, as its purchaser commissioned a print run of only twenty copies before the copper printing plate was destroyed. In 2012, Derby Museum commissioned another Captive painting from Emma Tooth.
References
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2003). A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. Oxford World Classics. pp. 105–150.
- ↑ "Laurence Sterne". Columbia Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 1 July 2006.
- ↑ "Laurence Sterne: Journal to Eliza". The Literacy Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2003). A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. Oxford World Classics. p. 3.
- ↑ Buckland, Charles Edward (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. S. Sonnenschein. p. 123 . Retrieved 1 July 2006.
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2003). A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. Oxford World Classics. p. 132.
- ↑ "Laurence Sterne". Columbia Enyclcopedia Online. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2012). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The Penguin English Library. Kindle Edition. Volume 1, Chapter 11.
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2003). A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. Oxford World Classics. pp. xiv.
...when the first two volumes of The Sermons of Mr. Yorick appeared in May 1760, they did so with an impressive list of subscribers and eventually ran to more lifetime editions than the best-selling Tristram Shandy. In spite of their popularity in the 1760s and the decades after his death, Sterne's forty-five sermons are now the most neglected part of his canon.
- ↑ Sterne, Laurence (2003). A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings. Oxford World Classics. p. 132.
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