The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 4J. Murray, 1834 |
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... Father of Peter a Fisherman - Peter's early Conduct- His Grief for the old Man - He takes an Apprentice- The Boy's Suffering and Fate - A second Boy : how he died- Peter acquitted - A third Apprentice- A Voyage by Sea : the Boy does not ...
... Father of Peter a Fisherman - Peter's early Conduct- His Grief for the old Man - He takes an Apprentice- The Boy's Suffering and Fate - A second Boy : how he died- Peter acquitted - A third Apprentice- A Voyage by Sea : the Boy does not ...
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... father forced her hand ; She had no vixen virgin - aunt , Without whose aid she could not eat , And yet who poison'd all her meat , With gibe and sneer and taunt . Yet of the heroine she'd a share , — She saved a lover from despair ...
... father forced her hand ; She had no vixen virgin - aunt , Without whose aid she could not eat , And yet who poison'd all her meat , With gibe and sneer and taunt . Yet of the heroine she'd a share , — She saved a lover from despair ...
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... father to be shunn'd and fear'd , Without employment , prospect , cot , or cash ; That I have judged th ' heroic souls were rash . Now shifts the scene , - the fair in tower confined , In all things suffers but in change of mind ; Now ...
... father to be shunn'd and fear'd , Without employment , prospect , cot , or cash ; That I have judged th ' heroic souls were rash . Now shifts the scene , - the fair in tower confined , In all things suffers but in change of mind ; Now ...
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... father died - again my mother wed , " And found the comforts of her life were fled ; ( 1 ) As this incident points out the work alluded to , I wish it to be remem- bered , that the gloomy tenour , the querulous melancholy of the story ...
... father died - again my mother wed , " And found the comforts of her life were fled ; ( 1 ) As this incident points out the work alluded to , I wish it to be remem- bered , that the gloomy tenour , the querulous melancholy of the story ...
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... father's fury and the children's cries " I soon could bear , but not my mother's sighs ; " For she look'd back on comforts , and would say , " I wrong'd thee , Ellen , ' and then turn away : " Thus , for my age's good , my youth was ...
... father's fury and the children's cries " I soon could bear , but not my mother's sighs ; " For she look'd back on comforts , and would say , " I wrong'd thee , Ellen , ' and then turn away : " Thus , for my age's good , my youth was ...
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Page 241 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 171 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 261 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough ; God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Page 48 - I fix'd my eyes On the mid stream and saw the spirits rise: I saw my father on the water stand, And hold a thin pale boy in either hand; And there they glided ghastly on the top Of the salt flood, and never touch 'da drop: I would have struck them, but they knew th' intent, And smiled upon the oar, and down they went.
Page 143 - The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope, in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence.
Page 283 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 84 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 283 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, . The course of true love never did run smooth : J But, either it was different in blood ; — Lys.
Page 6 - In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics.
Page 85 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.