Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 / 2008-06-02 00:00:00

EBOOK, THE PARISH REGISTER ***


Transcribed by Mark Sherwood, e-mail: mark.sherwood@btinternet.com


"THE PARISH REGISTER", by GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832) {1}
IN THREE PARTS.


PART I.

Tum porro puer (ut saevis projectus ab undis,
Navita) nudus humi jacet infans indigus omni
Vitali auxilio, -
Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aequum est,
Cui tantum in vita restat transire malorum.
LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura, lib.5
THE ARGUMENT.
The Village Register considered, as containing principally the
Annals of the Poor--State of the Peasantry as meliorated by
Frugality and Industry--The Cottage of an industrious Peasant; its
Ornaments--Prints and Books--The Garden; its Satisfactions--The
State of the Poor, when improvident and vicious--The Row or Street,
and its Inhabitants--The Dwellings of one of these--A Public House--
Garden and its Appendages--Gamesters; rustic Sharpers &c.--
Conclusion of the Introductory Part.
BAPTISMS.
The Child of the Miller's Daughter, and Relation of her Misfortune--
A frugal Couple; their Kind of Frugality--Plea of the Mother of a
natural Child; her Churching--Large Family of Gerard Ablett: his
apprehensions: Comparison between his state and that of the wealthy
Farmer his Master: his Consolation--An Old Man's Anxiety for an
Heir: the Jealousy of another on having many--Characters of the
Grocer Dawkins and his Friend; their different Kinds of
Disappointment--Three Infants named--An Orphan Girl and Village
School-mistress--Gardener's Child: Pedantry and Conceit of the
Father: his botanical Discourse: Method of fixing the Embryo-fruit
of Cucumbers--Absurd Effects of Rustic Vanity: observed in the
names of their Children--Relation of the Vestry Debate on a
Foundling: Sir Richard Monday--Children of various Inhabitants--The
poor Farmer--Children of a Profligate: his Character and Fate--
Conclusion.
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