The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, Volume 2J. Murray, 1823 - English poetry |
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... race . Shops , whence are heard the hammer and the saw , And village - pleasures unreproved by law ; Then how serene ! when in your favourite room , Gales from your jasmines soothe the evening gloom ; When from your upland paddock you ...
... race . Shops , whence are heard the hammer and the saw , And village - pleasures unreproved by law ; Then how serene ! when in your favourite room , Gales from your jasmines soothe the evening gloom ; When from your upland paddock you ...
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... race , " Of all professions , and in every place . " " What is a Church ? " — " A flock , " our vicar cries , " Whom bishops govern and whom priests advise ; " Wherein are various states and due degrees , " The bench for honour , and ...
... race , " Of all professions , and in every place . " " What is a Church ? " — " A flock , " our vicar cries , " Whom bishops govern and whom priests advise ; " Wherein are various states and due degrees , " The bench for honour , and ...
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... race : We too shall rest , and then our children keep Their road in life , and then , forgotten , sleep ; Meanwhile the building slowly falls away , And , like the builders , will in time decay . The old foundation - but it is not clear ...
... race : We too shall rest , and then our children keep Their road in life , and then , forgotten , sleep ; Meanwhile the building slowly falls away , And , like the builders , will in time decay . The old foundation - but it is not clear ...
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... finish'd , his corrected pride Felt the desert , and yet the praise denied . Thus he his race began , and to the end His constant care was , no man to offend ; No haughty virtues stirr'd his peaceful mind , Nor urged.
... finish'd , his corrected pride Felt the desert , and yet the praise denied . Thus he his race began , and to the end His constant care was , no man to offend ; No haughty virtues stirr'd his peaceful mind , Nor urged.
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... race We nurse some portion in our favour'd place ; Not one warm preacher of one growing sect Can say our Borough treats him with neglect ; Frequent as fashions , they with us appear , And you might ask , " how think we for the year ...
... race We nurse some portion in our favour'd place ; Not one warm preacher of one growing sect Can say our Borough treats him with neglect ; Frequent as fashions , they with us appear , And you might ask , " how think we for the year ...
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ALBEMARLE STREET Arminian behold Blaney BOROUGH Calvinistic cheerful Claudian comfort cried crime dare deed delight dread dwell ease evil fame favourite fear feel felt fix'd foes friends gain'd GEORGE CRABBE give grace grave grief grieve hear heart honour hope hour humble John Bunyan Juvenal kind labour LETTER live look look'd man's meads of asphodel mind misery never night numbers nymphs o'er once Ovid oxymel pain pass'd passions peace Peter PETER GRIMES pity pleasant pleasure poison'd poor praise pride priest race racter reader rest rise Satan scenes scorn seem'd shame sigh Sir Denys sleep slow centuries smile soothed soul speech spirit spleen terrors thee thou thought took town trade trembling tried truth twas vex'd vice virtue walk wealth whist worth wretched youth