ARGUMENT.
The Subject proposed.—Remarks upon pastoral Poetry.—A Tract of Country near the Coast described.—An impoverished Borough.—Smugglers and their Assistants.—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.
