. The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . eal ? It is enough that I believeHeaven s brighter than I can conceive :And he that makes it all his careTo serve God here shall see Him there ! But oh ! what worlds shall I surveyThe moment that I leave this clay ?How sudden the surprise, how new !Let it, my God, be happy too. John Croft mentions that Sterne was notsteady to his pastimes and recreations, thatat one time he would be all agog with excite-ment at the prospect of shooting, and at anothertime could not be induced to leave his drawing-board or his canvas. Croft evidently regardedthis mere
. The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . eal ? It is enough that I believeHeaven s brighter than I can conceive :And he that makes it all his careTo serve God here shall see Him there ! But oh ! what worlds shall I surveyThe moment that I leave this clay ?How sudden the surprise, how new !Let it, my God, be happy too. John Croft mentions that Sterne was notsteady to his pastimes and recreations, thatat one time he would be all agog with excite-ment at the prospect of shooting, and at anothertime could not be induced to leave his drawing-board or his canvas. Croft evidently regardedthis merely as an instance of his friends in-stability of character; but it would perhaps bemore accurate to deduce from this the facts thatSterne had not yet found himself, and that hewas bored to death while staying at will presently be shown that his wife was nocompanion for him, and it is obvious that aman of his intellect can scarcely have foundcongenial spirits among his country was, however, on friendly terms with the. MBS. LAURENCE STERNE. (See p. 48.) From a drawing in crayons by Francis Cotes(in the possession of the Rer. Canon Blcnkiri). 85 LIFE AT SUTTON VICARAGE 87 Rev. John Blake, head master of the RoyalGrammar School at York, and there is proof ofthis intimacy in the following letter, one of aseries of letters exchanged concerning Blakeswish to win the hand of a Miss Ash. DEAR BLAKE, It is not often, if ever, I differ muchfrom you in my judgment of things, thereforeyou must bear with me now in remonstratingagainst the impropriety of my coming just atthis crisis. You have happily now concluded thisaffair wch has been so often upon the eve ofbreaking off, and my coming wd be the mostunseasonable visit ever paid by mortal in what light Mrs. and Miss Ash musthave hitherto lookt upon me, and should it evercome to light that I had posted over upon thistermination of yr differences, I know it wouldnaturally alarm them and raise a suspicion I
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