George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)Crabbe, George
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George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)
Crabbe, George
English poetry
_Each has its motto: some contrived to tell,
In monkish rhyme, the uses of a bell._
The several purposes for which bells are used are expressed in two
Latin verses of this kind.
[42] Note 4, page 297, line 110.
_But monuments themselves memorials need._
Quandoquidem data sunt ipsis quoque fata sepulchris.
_Juvenal._ Sat. x. I. 146.
[43] Note 5, page 301, last line.
_Regard the dead, but to the living live._
It has been observed to me, that in the first part of the story I
have represented this young woman as resigned and attentive to her
duties; from which it should appear that the concluding advice is
unnecessary; but if the reader will construe the expression "to the
living live," into the sense--"live entirely for them, attend to
duties only which are real, and not those imposed by the
imagination," I shall have no need to alter the line which
terminates the story.
LETTER III.
_THE VICAR--THE CURATE, &c._
And telling me the sov'reign'st thing on earth
Was parmacity for an inward bruise.
_Shakspeare._-Henry IV. Part I. Act 1 [Sc. 3, v. 58].
So gentle, yet so brisk, so wond'rous sweet,
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet.
_Churchill_[, _The Author_].
Much are the precious hours of youth mispent
In climbing learning's rugged, steep ascent:
When to the top the bold adventurer's got,
He reigns, vain monarch[, o'er] a barren spot;
[Whilst] in the vale of ignorance below
Folly and vice to rank luxuriance grow;
Honours and wealth pour in on every side,
And proud preferment rolls her golden tide.
_Churchill_[, _The Author_].
_VICAR._
The lately departed Minister of the Borough--His soothing and
supplicatory Manners--His cool and timid Affections--No Praise due
to such negative Virtue--Address to Characters of this Kind--The
Vicar's Employments--His Talents and moderate Ambition--His
Dislike of Innovation--His mild but ineffectual Benevolence--A
Summary of his Character.
_CURATE._
Mode of paying the Borough-Minister--The Curate has no such
Resources--His Learning and Poverty--Erroneous Idea of his
Parent--His Feelings as a Husband and Father--The dutiful
Regard of his numerous Family--His Pleasure as a Writer, how
interrupted--No Resource in the Press--Vulgar Insult--His
Account of a Literary Society, and a Fund for the Relief of
indigent Authors, &c.
LETTER III.
_THE VICAR--THE CURATE, &c._
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