Excerpt from The Festival of Wit Charmmg fentimentalifi a huge quarto, price only one guinea, filled with more goody goo 'dies than the Bisgrapfiia Brzz'annzca, and would have infifled on it that Sterne was not a mor 151, but an angel fent from heaven to make us laugh and cry.-it is to prevent any errors of this kind.i fit down, this fin: of April, I 782, to give the reader an account of my life.-i was born in London in - n-i my father was well known by the name of the good-natured man, he had his blemilhes, but they never injured any but his creditors. He was the intimate companion of Thomfon, Mallet and Lyttelton, and many other men of genius, and took a particular p1ide ln patro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.