THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. GEORGE CRABBE:

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WITH

HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS,

AND HIS LIFE,

BY HIS SON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXIV.

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,

New-Street-Square.

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Town Scenery - A Comparison with certain Views in the

Country- The River and Quay Ship-building- Sea-

Boys and Port-Views - Walks from Town House of

Sunday Entertainment - The Sea: a Summer and Winter

View-A Shipwreck at Night, and its Effects on Shore-

Evening Amusements

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The Building so

Several Meanings of the Word Church

called Its Antiquity and Grandeur - Columns and Ailes

The Tower: the Stains made by Time - Progress of

Vegetation on such Buildings - Bells - Tombs - Mural

Monuments - Church-yard Graves-A Story of a betrothed

Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.

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The lately departed Minister of the Borough - His soothing

and supplicatory Manners His cool and timid Affections

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- No Praise due to such negative Virtue - The Vicar's

Employments - His Talents and moderate Ambition - His

Dislike of Innovation - His mild but ineffectual Bene-

volence - Summary of his Character

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THE CURATE.

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Mode of paying the Borough-Minister - The Curate - His

Learning and Poverty-His Feelings as a Husband and

Father. The dutiful Regard of his numerous Family

His Pleasure as a Writer, how interrupted - No Resource

in the Press - His Account of a Literary Society, and a

Fund for the Relief of indigent Authors, &c.

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LETTER IV.

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SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELIGION.

Sects and Professions in Religion numerous and successive-

General Effect of False Zeal- Deists Fanatical Idea of

Church Reformers - The Church of Rome

Swedenborgians - Universalists - Jews.

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Methodists of two Kind; Calvinistic and Arminian.

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Baptists-

The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast His Contempt of

Learning- Dislike to sound Morality: why His Idea

of Conversion-His Success, and Pretensions to Humility.

The Arminian Teacher of the older Flock-

the Operations and Power of Satan

Regular Ministers -

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Their Notions of

Their Opinion of

Comparison of these with the Preacher

himself— His Description of the powerful Effects of the
Word in the awakening Days of Methodism

The Evils of the Contest - Miseries endured by a Friend of

the Candidate- Unreasonable Expectations of Voters-

Censures of the opposing Party- Vices and Follies shown

in such Time of Contest Plans and Cunning of Electors

Evils which remain after the Decision- Advancement of

the Mayor till raised to the Government of the Borough

These Evils not to be placed in Balance with the Liberty of

the People

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