George Crabbe
George Crabbe
George Crabbewas an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1754
dream portraits please
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
ease habit live-by
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
home age care
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
sight air sky
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.
thinking wife speak
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
men numbers wife
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.
quality degrees ability
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
sea fishing rivers
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
complaining gains farming
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
writing wish sometimes
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.
strong grief passion
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!
pain long effort
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.
luxury doing-good
He tried the luxury of doing good.
son advice be-good
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.