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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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• Life's bloomy flush was lost.

  George Crabbe

  Life, Lost

  George Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works with his letters and journals, and his life,”, p.191

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• Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Sick, Honor

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.361

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• Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
  Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

  George Crabbe

  Poetry, Myrtle, Ruins

  George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”

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• What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

  George Crabbe

  Christian, Race, Faithful

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.98

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• With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

  George Crabbe

  Silent, Awe, Walks

  'The Library' (1808) l. 105

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Beer, Proud

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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• We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

  George Crabbe

  Heart, Emotional, Feelings

  George Crabbe (1823). “The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: In Five Volumes”, p.273

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• 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

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• 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

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• "Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

  George Crabbe

  Dark, Law, Mind

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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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