Laurence Sterne: The Complete Works

Laurence Sterne

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This ebook contains Laurence Sterne's complete works.
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• Vie et opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme
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• Tristram Shandy

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• Publié par: Pandora's Box
• Date de parution: 06 décembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 6
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the
COMPLETE
WORKS
of
the late Reverend
Mr. LAURENCE
STERNE,
Prebendary of YORK, &c &c .
( 1713 – 1768 )
21 st Century Edition.




Laurence Sterne.


☞ The UNKNOWN WORLD. Verses occasioned by bearing a Pass-Bell. By the Rev. Mr St——n. [1743.]
☞ The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath, consider’d: A CHARITY-SERMON, preach’d on Good-Friday, April 17, 1747, in the Parish Church of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs and Commoners of the City of York, at the Annual Collection for the Support of Two Charity-Schools. By Laurence Sterne, A. M. Prebendary of York. [York, 1747.]
☞ The Abuses of CONSCIENCE: set forth in a SERMON, preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter’s, York, at the Summer Assizes, before the Hon. Mr. Baron Clive, and the Hon. Mr. Baron Smythe, on Sunday, July 29, 1750. By Laurence Sterne, A. M. Prebendary of the said Church. [York, 1750.]
☞ A Political Romance, Addressed To —— ———, Esq; of York. To which is subjoined a KEY. [York, 1757.]
The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. ☞ Vol. I. | ☞ Vol. II. [London, 1760.]
The SERMONS of Mr. YORICK. ☞ Vol. I. | ☞ Vol. II. [London, 1760.]
☞ YORICK’s MEDITATIONS upon various Interesting and Important Subjects. [London, 1760.]
The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. ☞ Vol. III. | ☞ Vol. IV. [London, 1761.]
The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. ☞ Vol. V. | ☞ Vol. VI. [London, 1762.]
The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. ☞ Vol. VII. | ☞ Vol. VIII. [London, 1765.]
The SERMONS of Mr. YORICK. ☞ Vol. III. | ☞ Vol. IV. [London, 1766.]
☞ The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. Vol. IX. [London, 1767.]
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY through FRANCE and ITALY. by Mr. YORICK. ☞ Vol. I. | ☞ Vol. II. [London, 1768.]
SERMONS by the late Rev. Mr. STERNE. ☞ Vol. V. | ☞ Vol. VI. | ☞ Vol. VII. [London, 1769.]
☞ POLITICAL ROMANCE, Addressed to —— ——— Esq; of York. [London, 1969.]
☞ LETTERS from YORICK to ELIZA. [London, 1775.]
☞ STERNE’s LETTERS to his Friends on Various Occasions. To which is added, his HISTORY of a WATCH COAT, with Explanatory Notes. [London, 1775.]
LETTERS of the late Rev. Mr. LAURENCE STERNE, to his most intimate Friends. With a FRAGMENT in the Manner of Rabelais. To which are prefix’d, Memoirs of his Life and Family, written by Himself. And published by his Daughter, Mrs. Medalle. In Three Volumes. ☞ Vol. I. | ☞ Vol. II. | ☞ Vol. III. [London, 1775.]
☞ The BEAUTIES of STERNE: Including all his Pathetic Tales, and most distinguished Observations on Life. Selected for the Heart of Sensibility. [London, 1782.]
☞ ORIGINAL LETTERS of the late Reverend Mr. LAURENCE STERNE; never before published. [London, 1788.]
☞ The JOURNAL to ELIZA. [New York, 1904.]
The UNKNOWN WORLD. Verses occasioned by bearing a Pass-Bell. By the Rev. Mr St——n. [The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XIII, page 376, July 1743.]
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☞ The UNKNOWN WORLD.
The UNKNOWN WORLD. Verses occasioned by bearing a Pass-Bell.
By the Rev. Mr St——n.

But what’s beyond Death?—Who shall draw that
Veil?
Hughes Siege of Damascus.

HArk, my gay friend, that solemn toll
Speaks the departure of a soul;
’Tis gone, that’s all, we know—not where
Or how th’ unbody’d soul does fare.
In that mysterious world none knows,
But God alone to whom it goes;
To whom departed souls return
To take their doom, to smile or mourn.
Oh! by what glimm’ring light we view
The unknown world we’re hast’ning to!
God has lock’d up the mystick page,
And curtain’d darkness round the stage!
Wife heav’n to render search perplext,
Has drawn ’twixt this world and the next
A dark impenetrable sereen,
All behind which is yet unseen!
We talk of heav’n, we talk of hell;
But what they mean no tongue can tell!
Heav’n is the realm where angels are,
And hell the Chaos of despair!
But what these awful words imply,
None of us know before we die!
Whether we will or no, we must
Take the succeeding world on trust.
This hour perhaps our friend is well;
Death-struck the next he cries, farewell !
I die! —and then for ought we see,
Ceases at once to breathe and be.
Thus launch’d from life’s ambiguous shore
Ingulph’d in death, apperas no more,
Then undirected to repair
To distant worlds we know not where.
Swift files the soul, perhaps ’tis gone
A thoushand leagues beyond the sun;
Or twice ten thousand more thrice told,
Ere the forsaken clay is cold!
And yet who knows, if friends we lov’d,
Tho’ dead, may be so far remov’d;
Only this veil of flesh between,
Perhaps they watch us, tho’ unseen.
Whilst we, their loss lamenting say,
They’re out of hearing, far away:
Guardians to us perhaps they’re near
Conceal’d in vehicles of air.
And yet no notice they give,
Nor tell us where, nor how they live;
Tho’ conscious whilst with us below,
How much themselves defir’d to know;
As if bound up by solemn fare
To keep this secret of their state ,
To tell their joys or pains to none,
That man might live by Faith alone.
Well, let my sovereign, ’f he please,
Lock up his marvellous decrees;
Why should I wish him to reveal
What he thinks proper to conceal?
It is enough that I believe,
Heav’n’s brighter than I can conceive:
And he that makes it all his care
To serve God here, shall see him there!
But oh! what worlds shall I survey,
The moment that I leave this clay?
How sudden the surprize, how new!
Let it, my God, be happy too.
☜
The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath, consider’d: A CHARITY-SERMON, preach’d on Good-Friday, April 17, 1747, in the Parish Church of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs and Commoners of the City of York, at the Annual Collection for the Support of Two Charity-Schools. By Laurence Sterne, A. M. Prebendary of York. [York, 1747.]
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☞ [Title page.] | ☞ [Dedication.]

The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath, consider’d:
A
CHARITY-SERMON,
preach’d on
Good-Friday, April 17, 1747.
in the PARISH CHURCH of
St. Michael-le-Belfrey,
before
The Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs and Commoners of the City of York, at the Annual Collection for the Support of Two Charity-Schools.
By Laurence Sterne, A. M.
Prebendary of York .
Y O R K :
Printed for J. Hildyard Bookseller in Stonegate : And Sold by Mess. Knapton, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard ; Mess. Longman and Shewell, and M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row, London .
M.DCC.XLVII.
( Price Six-pence. )

to the Very Reverend Richard Osbaldestson , D.D. Dean of York .
SIR,
I Have taken the Liberty to inscribe this Discourse to you, in Testimony of the great Respect which I owe to your Character in general; and from a Sense of what is due to it in particular from every Member of the Church of York.
I wish I had as good a Reason for doing that, which has given me the Opportunity of making so publick and just an Acknowledgment; being afraid there can be little left to be said upon the Subject of Charity, which has not been often thought, and much better express’d by many who have gone before: And indeed, it seems so beaten and common a Path, that it is not an easy Matter for a new Comer to distinguish himself in it, by any Thing except the Novelty of his Vehicle.
I beg, however, Sir, your kind Acceptance of it, and of the Motives which have induced me to address it to you; one of which, I cannot conceal in Justice to myself, because it has proceeded from the Sense of many Favours and Civilities which I have received from you. I am,

Reverend Sir,
Your most obliged,
and faithful
Humble Servant,
Laurence Sterne.
☜
The Abuses of CONSCIENCE: set forth in a SERMON, preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter’s, York, at the Summer Assizes, before the Hon. Mr. Baron Clive, and the Hon. Mr. Baron Smythe, on Sunday, July 29, 1750. By Laurence Sterne, A. M. Prebendary of the said Church. [York, 1750.]
☜

☞ [Title page.] | ☞ [Dedication.]

The Abuses of Conscience :
set forth in a
S E R M O N,
preached in the
CATHEDRAL CHURCH
of
St. PETER ’s, YORK,
at the
SUMMER ASSIZES,
before the
Hon. Mr. Baron CLIVE,
and the
Hon. Mr. Baron SMYTHE,
On SUNDAY, July 29, 1750.
By LAURENCE STERNE, A. M.
Prebendary of the said Church.
Published at the Request of the High Sheriff and Grand Jury.
Y O R K: Printed by CÆSAR WARD : or JOHN HILDYARD, in Stonegate, 1750. [Price Six-pence. ]

to
Sir William Pennyman, Bart High Sheriff of the County of York,
and to
Sir Edmund Anderson, of Kildwick-Percy, Bart. Ralph Pennyman, of Beverly; Montagu Brook, of Skelton; Thomas Norcliffe, of Langton; John Hutton, of Marske; William Turner, of Clints; Thomas Fawkes, of Farnley; Richard Langley, of Wykeham-Abbey; George Montgomery Metham, of North-Cave; Tindal Thompson, of Setterington; Thomas Robinson, of Beckhouse; Edmund Charles Blomberg, of Kirkby-Misperton; Francis Best, of Beverly; Thomas Bradshaw, of Hemsworth; Roger Beckwith, of Handall-Abbey; William Sutton, of Carleton; Peter Conset, of Brawith; George Iveso