George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales. LifeT. Y. Crowell, 1877 - 523 pages |
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Aldborough art thou beauty behold bosom breast Caliph call'd comfort confess'd Conscience cried crime dame danger deed delight disdain distress'd doubt dread ease fair faith fame fate father favourite fear fear'd feel felt fix'd fled foes folly fond friendly pair Fulham gain'd gave gay bride gentle George Crabbe give grace grave grief grieved happy hear heart honour hope hour humble John Dighton kind knew labour lady Lady saw live look look'd maid marriage mind Muse numbers nymph o'er pain pass'd passions peace pity pleased pleasure poison'd poor praise pride priest proud rest scenes scorn seem'd shame sigh slave smile soothe sorrow soul speak spirit spleen Squire sure as fate terror thee thine thou thought trembling truth twas vex'd vile virtue wealth wife wretch youth
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Page 228 - As you who praise would never deign to touch. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please ; Go ! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there ; If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire ; Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th...
Page 130 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!
Page 188 - A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none, on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy ! — I see the business.
Page 482 - But I have griefs of other kind, Troubles and sorrows more severe ; Give me to ease my tortured mind, Lend to my woes a patient ear ; And let me — if I may not find A friend to help — find one to hear.
Page 229 - Say ye, opprest by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose ; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye to read the distant glance ; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease...
Page 230 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
Page 284 - I feel his absence in the hours of prayer, And view his seat and sigh for Isaac there : I see no more those white locks thinly spread Round the bald polish of that...
Page 307 - Apart, she sigh'd; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so — 'Perhaps he will not sink'.
Page 267 - Lo! now with red rent cloak and bonnet black, And torn green gown loose hanging at her back, One who an infant in her arms sustains, And seems in patience striving with her pains...
Page 457 - Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food ; But sleep will soon the weary soul prepare For cares to-morrow that were this day's care : For forms, for feasts, that sundry times have pasty And formal feasts that will for ever last.