The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman in permanent additions to the English lexicon; within the text of "Tristram Shandy" Sterne describes the novel as "Shandean," coining a term which still carries the meaning that Sterne originally attached to it when he wrote, "I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good humoured "Shandean" book..." Strongly influenced by Cervantes' "Don Quixote", Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" also gave rise to the term "cervantic," (which Sterne at the time spelled "cervantick"). In 1766, at the height of the debate about slavery, Ignatius Sancho wrote to Laurence Sterne encouraging the writer to use his pen to lobby for the abolition
Sentimental Journey (song) sang the song on their way back to the show. The song is heard playing on a jukebox in the 1980 animated film "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)". It is sung by Jean Claude Fornier's character played by Paul Verdier in The Man From Marseilles (Magnum, P.I.) at a karaoke bar. It also appeared in advertisements for Ford Australia during the early 1990s. It was the theme song of the ABC Radio program "Sentimental Journey" presented by John West. The song is featured in Season 2, Episode 4 of The Man in the High Castle (TV series).