THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. GEORGE CRABBE:

WITH

HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS,

AND HIS LIFE,

BY HIS SON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXIV.

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square.

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Town Scenery - A Comparison with certain Views in the

Country The River and Quay Ship-building - Sea-

Boys and Port-Views - Walks from Town - House of

Sunday Entertainment The Sea: a Summer and Winter

View A Shipwreck at Night, and its Effects on Shore -

Evening Amusements

LETTER II. THE CHURCH.

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Several Meanings of the Word Church - The Building so

called Its Antiquity and Grandeur - Columns and Ailes

The Tower: the Stains made by Time-

Vegetation on such Buildings - Bells-

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Progress of

Tombs - Mural

Monuments Church-yard Graves- A Story of a betrothed

Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.

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LETTER III. THE VICAR.

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The lately departed Minister of the Borough His soothing

and supplicatory Manners - His cool and timid Affections

- No Praise due to such negative Virtue The Vicar's

Employments- His Talents and moderate Ambition - His

Dislike of Innovation-His mild but ineffectual Bene-

volence- Summary of his Character

THE CURATE.

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Mode of paying the Borough-Minister - The Curate His

Learning and Poverty-His Feelings as a Husband and

Father The dutiful Regard of his numerous Family-

His Pleasure as a Writer, how interrupted - No Resource

in the Press · His Account of a Literary Society, and a

Fund for the Relief of indigent Authors, &c.

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LETTER IV.

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SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELIGION.

Sects and Professions in Religion numerous and successive

General Effect of False Zeal- Deists- Fanatical Idea of

Church Reformers - The Church of Rome Baptists-

Swedenborgians Universalists-Jews.

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Methodists of two Kind; Calvinistic and Arminian.

The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast His Contempt of

Learning Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Idea

of Conversion-His Success, and Pretensions to Humility.

The Arminian Teacher of the older Flock Their Notions of

the Operations and Power of Satan - Their Opinion of

Regular Ministers - Comparison of these with the Preacher

himself- His Description of the powerful Effects of the
Word in the awakening Days of Methodism

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The Evils of the Contest-Miseries endured by a Friend of

the Candidate- Unreasonable Expectations of Voters-

Censures of the opposing Party- Vices and Follies shown

in such Time of Contest - Plans and Cunning of Electors

-Evils which remain after the Decision- Advancement of

the Mayor till raised to the Government of the Borough-

These Evils not to be placed in Balance with the Liberty of

the People

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