The Life of the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B.G. Dearborn, 1837 - 311 pages |
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Page 213 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 308 - When the ear heard him, then it blessed him: and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him. Because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him; and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 294 - After dinner the children assemble round the dessert, and perhaps he reads them the story of the Fisherman, his greatest favourite. How often have I heard him repeat to them the invocation — 'O, man of the sea, come listen to me, For Alice, my wife, the plague of my life, Hath sent me to beg a boon of thee.
Page 95 - But, in truth, he had neither the turn, nor much of the talent for the retention of conversations ; and even what he did remember, he was not always disposed to communicate. One maxim of Johnson's, however, had made a strong impression on him : " Never fear putting the strongest and best things you can think of into the mouth of your speaker, whatever may be his condition...
Page 134 - ... indescribable benevolence spoke exultation in the foretaste of our raptures. But, I think, even earlier than these are my first recollections of my mother. I think the very earliest is of her as combing my hair one evening, by the light of the fire, which hardly broke the long shadows of the room, and singing the plaintive air of
Page 153 - From that time his health began to amend rapidly, and his constitution was renovated ; a rare effect of opium, for that drug almost always inflicts some partial injury, even when it is necessary : but to him it was only salutary — and to a constant but slightly increasing dose of it may be attributed his long and generally healthy life.
Page 88 - You will guess the purpose of so long an introduction. I appeal to you, sir, as a good and, let me add, a great man. I have no other pretensions to your favour than that I am an unhappy one. It is not easy to support the thoughts of confinement; and I am coward enough to dread such an end to my suspense.
Page 16 - George was the first that entered. and the place being crammed full with offenders, the atmosphere soon became pestilentially close. The poor boy in vain shrieked that he was about to be suffocated. At last, in despair, he bit the lad next to him violently in the hand ; " Crabbe is dying, Crabbe is dying!
Page 87 - I begged to be credited for this sum till I received it of my subscribers, which I believe will be within one month : but to this letter I had no reply, and I have probably offended by my importunity. Having used every honest means in vain, I yesterday confessed my inability, and obtained, with much...
Page 268 - It surprised me, on taking Mr Crabbe to see the house of Allan Ramsay, on the Castle Hill, to find that he had never heard of Allan's name ; or, at all events, was unacquainted with his works. The same evening, however, he perused ' The Gentle Shepherd,' and he told me next morning, that he had been pleased with it, but added, ' there is a long step between Ramsay and Burns.' He then made Sir Walter read and interpret some of old Dunbar to him ; and said, ' I see that the Ayrshire bard had one giant...