Comments on Sterne. 73 
.** without mother—where Venus has nothing to 
** do: the fecond, begotten of Jupiter and 
** Dione—’* 
$ One Venus is ancient, without a Mother, and defcended 
from Heaven, whom we call caleftial. The younger 
begotten of Fupiter and Dione, whom commonly we call 
Venus. Frcinus, in his comment upon this place, cap. 8. 
following Plato, called thefe two loves, two Devils, or 
good and bad Angels according to us, which are fiill ho- 
wering about our fouls £ 
That part of the letter to Uncle: Toby, which 
confifts of obfolete medical practices, is taken from 
one of the Chapters on the Cure of Love-Melan- 
choly.|| Many curious quotations might be added 
to what Sterne knew, out of Dr. Ferrand’s Erdto- 
mania; but this Effay is already long enough. 
There is another writer, whofe p»thetic manner 
Sterne feems to have caught; it is Marivaux,—the 
father of the feutimental ftyle. A careful perufal : 
of his writings, and of thofe of the younger 
Crebillon, might perhaps elucidate the ferious parts 
of ‘Triftram Shandy, and the Sentiment:] Journey. 
But I muft leave this undertaking to thofe who have 
fufficient time to facrifice to the tafk. From thefe 
K - Authors, 
* Tr. Shandy, vol. viii. chap. 99. 
t+ Velafius is quoted thro’ all the preceding paflages in 
» Burton, 
+ P. 260. 
Il P. 333 to 335. 
