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• And took for truth the test of ridicule.

  George Crabbe

  Truth, Tests, Ridicule

  George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.174

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• Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Heart, Air

  George Crabbe (1838). “The Village, The Parish Register, and Other Poems”, p.15

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• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
  Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
  Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
  Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
  Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.

  George Crabbe

  Son, Soldier, Honor

  George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter Vi: Professions--Law”

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Winter, Blow

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
  Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
  The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
  May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
  Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
  And all the homely features homelier makes.

  George Crabbe

  Sleep, Eye, Nymphs

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.48

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• To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Long, Effort

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.201

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• Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

  George Crabbe

  Strong, Grief, Passion

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8

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• But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace
  In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
  Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
  And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
  Then for thine accent--what in sound can be
  So void of grace as dull monotony?

  George Crabbe

  Nice, Long, Grace

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

  George Crabbe

  Design, Anticipation, Scene

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.293

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• An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Infatuation, Foolish

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, Humble

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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