...slovenly cultivation had not called forth the resources of art to aid the churlishness of nature : " Io! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the ncigbouring poor, From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'...

...' Crabbe has described the unpromising scene of his nativity with his usual force and correctness: Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends the light tnrf that warms the neighbouring poor; • From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the...

...was the place where he was trained. In his poem, " The Village," he alludes to it as follows : "Lo I where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...

...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...

...glimpse of the unpromising scene of his nativity, is a specimen of his rough energy of description : *Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends the light turf lhat warms the neighboring poor; Prom thence u length of burning sand appears Where the thin harvest...

...shed? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighb'ring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd...

...widely stray," as Virgil and his imitators did. He gives an often-quoted picture of the Suffolk coast, " Where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor," and " Poppies nodding mock the hope of toil." He describes the poverty-stricken village with its "...

...? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? . . . Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles...

...Village," the chief beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,...

...beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the beath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,...