The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The borough, continued. Occasional pieces. The world of dreams. Tales

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John Murray, 1839

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עמוד 133 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
עמוד 47 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
עמוד 203 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
עמוד 8 - In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics.
עמוד 188 - Here Dinah sigh'd as if afraid to speak — And then repeated — ' They were frail and weak ; His soul she loved, and hoped he had the grace To fix his thoughts upon a better place.
עמוד 37 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
עמוד 156 - Who yearly finds his ample stores increase, From fortune's favours and a favouring lease ; Who rides his hunter, who his house adorns ; Who drinks his wine, and his disbursements scorns ; Who freely lives, and loves to show he can — This is the Farmer made the Gentleman.
עמוד 105 - The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope, in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence.
עמוד 120 - There were reformers of each difierent sort, Foes to the laws, the priesthood, and the court ; Some on their favourite plans alone intent, Some purely angry and malevolent : The rash were proud to blame their country's laws ; The vain, to seem supporters of a cause ; One call'd for change, that he would dread to see ; Another sigh'd for Gallic liberty ! And numbers joining with the forward crew, For no one reason — but that numbers do.
עמוד 135 - MINUTELY trace man's life ; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear, A.nd then, though some may in that life be strange, Yet there appears no vast nor sudden change : c 3 The links that bind those various deeds are seen, And no mysterious void is left between.

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