Excerpt from The Poetical Works of George Crabbe (Selected): With Prefactory Notice, Biographical and Critical The life of Crabbe has many points of interest, and of these his courtship especially merits atten tion. While at Woodbridge he won the affections of Miss Sarah Elmy, and during the long and trying years which intervened before he was placed in circumstances which enabled him to consummate his courtship in matrimony, he never relinquished the hope of one day claiming his bride. Reduced to his last sixpence, with his clothes and watch sold or in pawn, and, still worse, owing money for his lodgings, he nevertheless protested that he had not lost courage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.