Note 189 — Chapter VII

It would be difficult to find a more bare-faced and impudent literary theft than the case in which Sterne appropriated to himself the remonstrance of Burton ("Anatomy of Melancholy"), against that very plagiarism which he (Sterne) was then committing. Burton said: "As apothecaries, we make new mixtures, every day pour out of one vessel into another * * * We weave the same web, still twist the same rope again and again." Sterne says, with an effrontery all his own: "Shall we forever make new books, as apothecaries make new medicines, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we forever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope—forever in the same track? forever at the same pace?" For Sterne's plagiarism, see Dr. Ferriar's "Essay and Illustrations," also Scott's "Life of Sterne." [190] "Tristram Shandy," orig. ed., vol. viii, chap. 8. [191] "Rasselas," chap. xliv. Contrast with Porter on "The Human Intellect," pp. 371-2. [192] See Scott's "Memoir of Johnson." [193] "The Reverie," "The History of Arbaces," "The Pilgrim," "The History of John Juniper." [194] The facts of Brooke's life are taken from the introduction to the "Fool of Quality," by Rev. Charles Kingsley, New York, 1860. [195] Charles Kingsley, preface to the "Fool of Quality." [196] Kingsley's preface to "Fool of Quality." [197] "Alwyn," "Anna St. Ives," "Hugh Trevor," "Bryan Perdue." [198] Published in 1817, when the author was far advanced in years.