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Two early, if now neglected, examples of this inclination are the Portraits and Lives of Remarkable and Eccentric Characters, 2 vols. (London: 1819), and The Eccentric Mirror, collected by G. H. Wilson (London, 1807). Modernminor classics in the genre include J. B. Priestley, The English Comic Characters (London: Bodley Head, 1937), and Edith Sitwell, The English Eccentrics (London: Houghton, 1933).
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Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ed. Saintsbury (London, 1912), I, 21.
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Tristram Shandy I, 21.
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Laurence Sterne. A Sentimental Journey, ed. Monroe Engel, (New York: New American Library, 1964), p. 101.
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Letters to Elizabeth Rose of Kilravoch, ed. Horst W. Drescher (Edinburgh: Oliver, 1967), Letter 22, p. 59.
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See A. G. McKillop's comment that Don Quixote and Parson Adams «combine a primal innocence and direct simplicity of judgment with dignity and learning and with what one may call a rich inner resourcefulness. Who can deny that Don Quixote is a true knight and Adams a true priest?» The Early Masters of English Fiction (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 1956), p. 105.
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For discussion of Don Quixote and the psychology of the humors see Otis H. Green. «El Ingenioso Hidalgo», Hispanic Review 25 (1957), 175-93.
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Sentimental Journey, p. 125.
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George Cheyne M. D., The English Malady or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds (1733).
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Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, ed. B. Vickers (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967), ch. 12, p. 11.