ARGUMENT. The Subject proposed.-Remarks upon pastoral Poetry. -A Tract of Country near the Coast described.—An impoverished Borough.-Smugglers and their Assist ants. Rude Manners of the Inhabitants.-Ruinous Effects of a high Tide.-The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it.-The youthful Labourer.—The Old Man his Soliloquy.-The Parish Workhouse. Its Inhabitants.-The Sick Poor.-Their Apothecary. -The dying Pauper.-The Village Priest. |