But I will give a short passage from our author as to each.

He has been quoting somewhat at length from Sterne, and thus he ends; "And with this pretty dance and chorus the volume artfully concludes.

Even here one can't give the whole description.

There is not a page in Sterne's writing but has something that were better away, a latent corruption,--a hint as of an impure presence.

Some of that dreary double entendre may be attributed to freer times and manners than ours,--but not all.