The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The boroughJohn Murray, 1834 - 336 páginas |
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... humble Life , and Effects of Grief in the Survivor . 31 LETTER III . - THE VICAR . - - The lately departed Minister of the Borough - His soothing and supplicatory Manners His cool and timid Affections - - - No Praise due to such ...
... humble Life , and Effects of Grief in the Survivor . 31 LETTER III . - THE VICAR . - - The lately departed Minister of the Borough - His soothing and supplicatory Manners His cool and timid Affections - - - No Praise due to such ...
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... I honour , 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 .
... I honour , 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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... humble ; and not only has he nothing prodigious or astonishing in any of his representations , but he has not even attempted to impart any of the ordinary colours of poetry to those vulgar materials . He has no moralising swains or ...
... humble ; and not only has he nothing prodigious or astonishing in any of his representations , but he has not even attempted to impart any of the ordinary colours of poetry to those vulgar materials . He has no moralising swains or ...
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... humble and the great . It is in this class of mankind that more origin- ality of character , more variety of fortune , will be met with ; because , on the one hand , they do not live in the eye of the world , and , therefore , are not ...
... humble and the great . It is in this class of mankind that more origin- ality of character , more variety of fortune , will be met with ; because , on the one hand , they do not live in the eye of the world , and , therefore , are not ...
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... humble life . Can scenes like these withdraw thee from thy wood , Thy upland forest or thy valley's flood ? Seek then thy garden's shrubby bound , and look , As it steals by , upon the bordering brook ; ( 1 ) That winding streamlet ...
... humble life . Can scenes like these withdraw thee from thy wood , Thy upland forest or thy valley's flood ? Seek then thy garden's shrubby bound , and look , As it steals by , upon the bordering brook ; ( 1 ) That winding streamlet ...
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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.