[23.] Tristram Shandy, I, pp. 172–180.

[24.] II, p. 12.

[25.] Weimar, 1899.

[26.] These dates are of the departure from and return to Copenhagen; the actual time of residence in foreign lands would fall somewhat short of this period.

[27.] Deutsches Museum, 1777, p. 449, or Schriften, I, pp. 12–13; “Bibliothek der deutschen Klassiker,” Vol. VI, p. 652.

[28.] English writers who have endeavored to make an estimate of Sterne’s character have ignored this part of Garrick’s opinion, though his statement with reference to the degeneration of Sterne’s moral nature is frequently quoted.

[29.] Deutsches Museum, II, pp. 601–604; Schriften, II, pp. 288–291.

[30.] Gedichte von L. F. G. Goeckingk, 3 Bde., 1780, 1781, 1782, Leipzig.

[31.] I, pp. 94, 116, 160.

[32.] Hamburg, pp. 44.