The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The library. The village. The newspaper. The parish register. The birth of flattery. Reflections. Sir Eustace Grey. The hall of justice. Woman. Miscellaneous poemsJohn Murray, 1834 |
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... unequalled abilities a fund of good - nature ; ( 1 ) [ The Parish Register was the longest poem in the volume , published in 1807 , to which this dedication was prefixed . ] and this possibly led him to speak favourably of , B 2.
... unequalled abilities a fund of good - nature ; ( 1 ) [ The Parish Register was the longest poem in the volume , published in 1807 , to which this dedication was prefixed . ] and this possibly led him to speak favourably of , B 2.
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... nature ; that he delighted to give encouragement to any promise of ability ( 2 ) , and assistance to any appearance of ( 1 ) [ Mrs. Montagu , who had the good fortune to know , and the good taste to admire , Mr. Burke in the very early ...
... nature ; that he delighted to give encouragement to any promise of ability ( 2 ) , and assistance to any appearance of ( 1 ) [ Mrs. Montagu , who had the good fortune to know , and the good taste to admire , Mr. Burke in the very early ...
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... nature . His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history , and of the amenity of landscape . In painting portraits , he appears not to be raised upon that platform , but to descend to it from a higher sphere . His ...
... nature . His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history , and of the amenity of landscape . In painting portraits , he appears not to be raised upon that platform , but to descend to it from a higher sphere . His ...
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... nature , when I was told that a judge so discerning had consented to read and give his opinion of " The Village , " the poem I had prepared for publication . The time of suspense was not long protracted ; I was soon favoured with a few ...
... nature , when I was told that a judge so discerning had consented to read and give his opinion of " The Village , " the poem I had prepared for publication . The time of suspense was not long protracted ; I was soon favoured with a few ...
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... nature of my reader , that he will let them avail as far as he can , and find an additional apology in my fears of his censure . - These fears being so prevalent with me , I deter- mined not to publish any thing more , unless I could ...
... nature of my reader , that he will let them avail as far as he can , and find an additional apology in my fears of his censure . - These fears being so prevalent with me , I deter- mined not to publish any thing more , unless I could ...
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Aldborough antè appear beauty behold blest boast BONNEL THORNTON bosom brave breast call'd charms command Crabbe dead death delight dread dreams Duke of Rutland E'en evil fair fame fancy fate favour fear feel fled foes Folly gay bride genius gentle GEORGE CRABBE give grace grave grief happy heart honour hope humble kind labour live look look'd Lope de Vega Lord Holland Lord Robert Lord Robert Manners Lord Thurlow Marquess of Granby mind Muse never numbers nymphs o'er pain Parish Parish Register passions peace pleasure poem poet poor praise pride race rage rest round rustic scenes scorn shame sigh sing slave smile soothe sorrow soul spirit swain taste tears thee thine thou thought truth verse vex'd Village virtue woes wretched youth
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Página 35 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 47 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 35 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books: since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Página 35 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 37 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 42 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Página 47 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Página 86 - passing rich with forty pounds a year?" Ah! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock; A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task, As much as God or Man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To Fields the morning and to Feasts the night; None better...
Página 74 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...
Página 55 - And glory long has made the sages smile; 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind — • Depending more upon the historian's style, Than on the name a person leaves behind. Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle : The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks, Until his late Life by Archdeacon Coxe.