The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 3J. Murray, 1834 - 336 pages |
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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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Page 217 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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 —
Page 83 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.