The Life and Poetical Works of George CrabbeJ. Murray, 1901 - 584 pages |
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Aldborough appear'd Ballitore beauty Beccles behold Belvoir Castle brother call'd comfort Crabbe Crabbe's cried dear delight doubt dread dream Duke of Rutland ease fair fame fancy fate father favour favourite fear fear'd feel felt fix'd foes fond gain'd gave gentle GEORGE CRABBE give grace grief grieved happy hear heard heart honour hope humble kind knew labour lady live look look'd Lord Lord Holland Lord Robert Manners lover maid marriage mind Muse Muston never nymph o'er pain pass'd passions peace pity pleased pleasure poem poet poison'd poor praise pride Pucklechurch racter rest scene scorn seem'd shame sigh smile sorrow soul speak spirit strong Suffolk thee things thou thought Trowbridge truth Vale of Belvoir vex'd virtue wife wish woes wretched young youth
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Page 91 - 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.
Page 91 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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.
Page 109 - Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day — There children dwell, who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot and the madman gay.
Page 333 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 93 - 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.
Page 91 - 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...
Page 50 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 92 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 3 - There poppies nodding mock the hope of toil, There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf, The slimy mallow...
Page 110 - And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, ' 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...