The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 4J. Murray, 1834 |
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... humble dwelling is the widow's home ; There live a pair , for various fortunes known , But the blind Ellen will relate her own ; · - ( 1 ) The Life of Ellen Orford , though sufficiently burdened with error and misfortune , has in it ...
... humble dwelling is the widow's home ; There live a pair , for various fortunes known , But the blind Ellen will relate her own ; · - ( 1 ) The Life of Ellen Orford , though sufficiently burdened with error and misfortune , has in it ...
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... humble share ; " Five were our sons , and we , though careful , found 66 " Our hopes declining as the year came round : " For I perceived , yet would not soon perceive , My husband stealing from my view to grieve : " Silent he grew ...
... humble share ; " Five were our sons , and we , though careful , found 66 " Our hopes declining as the year came round : " For I perceived , yet would not soon perceive , My husband stealing from my view to grieve : " Silent he grew ...
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... humble teacher I - " Upon their heavenly Parent to rely . " Alas ! I needed such reliance more : " My idiot - girl , so simply gay before , - " Now wept in pain ; some wretch had found a time , " Depraved and wicked , for that coward ...
... humble teacher I - " Upon their heavenly Parent to rely . " Alas ! I needed such reliance more : " My idiot - girl , so simply gay before , - " Now wept in pain ; some wretch had found a time , " Depraved and wicked , for that coward ...
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... humble bed , " By lofty hopes and heavenly musings fed ; " Then I have seen thy lively looks express " The spirit's comforts in the man's distress . " Then didst thou cry , exulting , ' Yes , ' tis fit , “ ' Tis meet and right , my ...
... humble bed , " By lofty hopes and heavenly musings fed ; " Then I have seen thy lively looks express " The spirit's comforts in the man's distress . " Then didst thou cry , exulting , ' Yes , ' tis fit , “ ' Tis meet and right , my ...
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... humble maid , Whom he had first seduced and then betray'd : — However this , he seem'd a gracious lad , In grief submissive and with patience sad . Passive he labour'd , till his slender frame Bent with his loads , and he at length was ...
... humble maid , Whom he had first seduced and then betray'd : — However this , he seem'd a gracious lad , In grief submissive and with patience sad . Passive he labour'd , till his slender frame Bent with his loads , and he at length 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.