He damned Phineas to all eternity, in terms compared with which the curse of Saint Ernulphus enunciated by the late Mr. shandy was a fantastic benediction.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Emerson also said he heard the Germans considered the author of Tristram shandy a greater poet than Cowper, and that Goldsmith was a poet more because of the Vicar of Wakefield than the Deserted Village.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
What "Tristram shandy" was to me once under fire near Nijnieff, and "Red-gauntlet" on an awful morning when our whole Otriad meditated on the possibility of imprisonment before the evening-with nothing to be done but sit and wait!
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole