The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, Volume 2J. Murray, 1823 - English poetry |
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Page xxviii
... vice and misery left , more than sufficient to justify my description . But if I could find only one woman who ( passing forty years on many stages , and sustaining many principal characters ) laments in her unrespected old age , that ...
... vice and misery left , more than sufficient to justify my description . But if I could find only one woman who ( passing forty years on many stages , and sustaining many principal characters ) laments in her unrespected old age , that ...
Page xxx
... vice ; people who are thus incurably vain and determinately worldly ; thus devoted to enjoyment and insensible of shame , and so miserably fond of their pleasures , that they court even the remembrance with eager so- licitation , by ...
... vice ; people who are thus incurably vain and determinately worldly ; thus devoted to enjoyment and insensible of shame , and so miserably fond of their pleasures , that they court even the remembrance with eager so- licitation , by ...
Page xxxi
... vice and misery ; nor does any thing which I have heard or read invalidate the opinion ; happily , it is not a prevailing one , as these houses are , I believe , still confined to that part of the kingdom where they originated . To this ...
... vice and misery ; nor does any thing which I have heard or read invalidate the opinion ; happily , it is not a prevailing one , as these houses are , I believe , still confined to that part of the kingdom where they originated . To this ...
Page 27
... vice ; He ruled the Borough when his year came on , And some forget , and some are glad he's For never yet with shilling could he part , But when it left his hand , it struck his heart . Yet , here will love its last attentions pay ...
... vice ; He ruled the Borough when his year came on , And some forget , and some are glad he's For never yet with shilling could he part , But when it left his hand , it struck his heart . Yet , here will love its last attentions pay ...
Page 35
... Folly and vice to rank luxuriance grow ; Honours and wealth pour in on every side , And proud preferment rolls her golden tide . Churchill . VICAR . The lately departed Minister of the Borough - D 2 The Vicar-The Curate, &c.
... Folly and vice to rank luxuriance grow ; Honours and wealth pour in on every side , And proud preferment rolls her golden tide . Churchill . VICAR . The lately departed Minister of the Borough - D 2 The Vicar-The Curate, &c.
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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