George Crabbe Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

  George Crabbe

  Boys, Fishing, Wife

  George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes”

• The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

  George Crabbe

  Thinking, Wife, Speak

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.143

• Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Numbers, Wife

  George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.445

• 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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