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CHAPTER XXVIII.
STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.

The Subjective School. Sterne--Sermons. Tristram Shandy. Sentimental
Journey. Oliver Goldsmith. Poems--The Vicar. Histories, and Other
Works. Mackenzie. The Man of Feeling.

THE SUBJECTIVE SCHOOL.

In the same age, and inspired by similar influences, there sprang up a
widely-different school of novelists, which has been variously named as
the Sentimental and the Subjective School. Richardson and Fielding
depicted what they saw around them objectively, rather than the
impressions made upon their individual sensitiveness. Both Sterne and
Goldsmith were eminently subjective. They stand as a transparent medium
between their works and the reader. The medium through which we see
_Tristram Shandy_ is a double lens,--one part of which is the distorted
mind of the author, and the other the nondescript philosophy which he
pilfered from Rabelais and Burton. The glass through which the _Vicar of
Wakefield_ is shown us is the good-nature and loving heart of Goldsmith,
which brighten and gladden every creation of his pen.


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