The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The boroughJohn Murray, 1834 - 336 páginas |
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... LORD LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER ; K. G. AND LL . D. MY LORD , THE Poem , for which I have ventured to solicit your Grace's attention , was composed in a situation so near to Belvoir Castle , that the ...
... LORD LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER ; K. G. AND LL . D. MY LORD , THE Poem , for which I have ventured to solicit your Grace's attention , was composed in a situation so near to Belvoir Castle , that the ...
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... Lord , a motive much more powerful than a sense of propriety , a grateful remembrance of benefits conferred by the noble family in which you preside , has been the great inducement for me to wish that I might be permitted to inscribe ...
... Lord , a motive much more powerful than a sense of propriety , a grateful remembrance of benefits conferred by the noble family in which you preside , has been the great inducement for me to wish that I might be permitted to inscribe ...
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... Lord , and a consciousness of much which needs forgiveness , that I entreat your Grace to read my verses , with a wish , I had almost added , with a purpose to be pleased , and to make every possible allowance for subjects not always ...
... Lord , and a consciousness of much which needs forgiveness , that I entreat your Grace to read my verses , with a wish , I had almost added , with a purpose to be pleased , and to make every possible allowance for subjects not always ...
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... , and the gratitude I profess . I have the honour to be , MY LORD , Your Grace's most obliged and obedient humble servant , Muston , Dec. 1809 . GEORGE CRABBE . PREFACE . WHETHER , if I had not been encouraged 6 DEDICATION .
... , and the gratitude I profess . I have the honour to be , MY LORD , Your Grace's most obliged and obedient humble servant , Muston , Dec. 1809 . GEORGE CRABBE . PREFACE . WHETHER , if I had not been encouraged 6 DEDICATION .
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... Lord Kaimes , " assisted by some of his brethren , mumbles over some prayers and sprinkles the outside with holy - water , while they wash the in- side with the same precious liquor . The priest then draws seven crosses on the outside ...
... Lord Kaimes , " assisted by some of his brethren , mumbles over some prayers and sprinkles the outside with holy - water , while they wash the in- side with the same precious liquor . The priest then draws seven crosses on the outside ...
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Aldborough amuse ancient appear Arminian behold Benbow Blaney BOROUGH byssus Calvinistic Methodists cause character Church comfort Crabbe dare delight doubt dread Drury Lane dwell ease Eusebius evil fail'd fame favour favourite fear feel foes friends gain gain'd GEORGE CRABBE give gout grace grave grief grieve heart honour hope humble John Bunyan kind labours LETTER live look Lord lost man's mighty wind mind Muston never night numbers nymphs o'er once oxymel pain pass'd passions pity pleasure Poison'd poor praise prayer pride priest rest rise Satan scenes seat seem'd sigh Sir Denys sleep smile soothing soul speech spirit spleen things thou thought town trade trembling truth twas vex'd Vicar vice virtue wealth Whist wife wish worth youth
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Página 217 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Página 97 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
Página 83 - The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.
Página 27 - In-shore their passage Tribes of Sea-Gulls urge, And drop for Prey within the sweeping Surge; Oft in the rough opposing Blast they fly Far back, then turn, and all their force apply, While to the Storm they give their weak complaining cry; Or clap the sleek white Pinion to the breast, And in the restless Ocean dip for rest.
Página 44 - Apart she sighed ; alone, she shed the tear ; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot ; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so —
Página 83 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Página 115 - Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Página 267 - ... hast little, do thy diligence gladly to give of that little : for so gatherest thou thyself a good reward in the day of necessity. Tobit iv. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord : and look, what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again. Prov. xix. Blessed be the man that provideth for the sick and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
Página 115 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state...
Página 24 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.