They enabled him to satisfy his propensity for being deliberately eccentric which made Horace Walpole call tristram Shandy the 'dregs of nonsense,' and the learned Dr. Farmer prophesied that in twenty years it would be necessary to search antiquarian shops for a copy.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
52 tristram, story of, i.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
"That hardly seems to me to prove-" The little man waved aside the interruption and continued: "tristram-for I shall have him christened by that name-" "He'll be called Jeremiah," decided Captain Runacles shortly.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
