English Men of Letters: Crabbe

Alfred Ainger

Capitolo 6

periodic that had the angle" of a "Poet gave above always to George for
his/her special benefit. His/her father, respecting these first signals of a
literary tendency in his/her/their child, sent him/it to a small boarding-school to Bungay
in the same county and some years later to one of taller pretensions
to Stowmarket, it held from a Mr. Richard Haddon, a mathematical teacher of
some repute, where the boy also acquired some dominion of the Latin and
knowledge with the Latin classics. In his later him you/he/she was given years
(perhaps an a little ostentatiously) to setting before quotations from Horace,
Juvenal, Martial and oven more secluded authors, to the following one
sections of _The Borough_ But wherever he found books--especially
poetry--he read them and he/she remembered them. He showed considerable soon
knowledge with the best poets English, and even if checked Pope
its metrical forms, and anything more than the forms, to the the goal of his
life, he had acquired somehow a wide knowledge of Shakespeare, and also
of poets so then less known as Spenser, Raleigh and Cowley.

After the three years to Stowmarket--it what time established is that medicine
it had to be his to shout--George was taken by school and the search
started in deposit for some professional of country to whom is probable that he is
started making apprenticeship. An interval of some months was spent to house during that
he assisted his/her father to the office on Bench of Slaughden, and of year
1768, when still he was under fourteen years adult, a place you/he/she was found
for him in a surgeon's house to Wickham-brook, near Buries Away
Edmunds. This professional combined the you practise some agriculture on a
to staircase redoubt with that of physic, and young Crabbe had to take his/her action
in the he/she works some farm. The result was not satisfactory, and later
three years of this raw life and not congenial, a more profitable
situation is found with one Mr. Page of Woodbridge--the memorable house of
Bernard Barton and Edward FitzGerald. Crabbe became the pupil of the Mr. Page in
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