Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… the author of Tristram Shandy , being invited to attend salons such as the Baron d’Holbach’s – also frequented by David Hume or Edward Gibbon – talking to David Garrick of the ‘unexpected honours I have met with here’. 10 He adds: ‘Tristram …
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