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John Murray's possession, are sufficiently grim. The engravings, lacking the relief of colour, are even more so, and a rapid survey of the entire series amply shows how largely in Crabbe's subjects bulks the element of human misery. Crabbe was much flattered by this new tribute to his reputation, and dwells on it in one of his letters to Mrs. Leadbeater. A letter written from Mrs.
In his earlier novels there was no contemporary poet he more often quoted as headings for his chapters and it was Crabbe's Borough to which he listened with unfailing delight twenty years later, in the last sad hours of his decay. The immediate success of The Parish Register in 1807 encouraged Crabbe to proceed at once with a far longer poem, which had been some years in hand.
In the original, Rich windows. A Long Story, l. 7. 'And this according to the philosophers is happiness. Boswell says of Crabbe's poem The Village, that 'its sentiments as to the false notions of rustick happiness and rustick virtue were quite congenial with Johnson's own. Ante, iv. 175. 'This innovation was considered by Mr.
Hale says:"The trial by jury of twelve men was the usual trial among the Normans, in most suits; especially in assizes, et juris utrum." 1 Hale's History of the Common Law, 219 This was in Normandy, before the conquest of England by the Normans. See Ditto, p. 218. Crabbe's History of the English Law, p. 32.
In the third book, Boys at School, George relates some of his recollections, which include the story of a school-fellow, who having some liking for art but not much talent, finds his ambitions defeated, and dies of chagrin in consequence. This was in fact the true story of a brother of Crabbe's wife, Mr. James Elmy.
The heroic couplet controlled him to the end of his life, and there is no doubt that it was not merely timidity that made him confine himself to the old beaten track. Crabbe's thoughts ran very much in antithesis, and the couplet suited this tendency. But it had its serious limitations. Southey's touching stanzas
Crabbe's History of English Law, 181. The following objections will be made to the doctrines and the evidence presented in the preceding chapters. That it is a maxim of the law, that the judges respond to the question of law, and juries only to the question of fact.
Some of these reach the highest level of Crabbe's previous studies in the same kind, and it was to these that the new work was mainly to owe its success.
It was on this occasion that the Chancellor made his memorable comparison of Crabbe to Parson Adams, no doubt pointing to a certain rusticity, and possibly provincial accent, from which Crabbe seems never to have been wholly free. This promotion seems to have interfered very little with Crabbe's residence at Belvoir or in London.
We have the authority of Crabbe's son and biographer for saying that he never really cared for the profession he had adopted. What proficiency he finally attained in it, before he forsook it for ever, is not quite clear. But it is certain that his residence among the more civilised and educated inhabitants of Woodbridge was of the greatest service to him.
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