In some other specimens of Crabbe's verse, submitted at the same time to his judgment, the note of a very different school was dominant.

But here for the moment appears a fresher key and a later model.

In the lines just quoted the feeling and the cadence of _The Traveller_ and _The Deserted Village_ are unmistakable.

But if they suggest comparison with the exquisite passage in the latter beginning-- "And as the hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from which it first she flew," they also suggest a contrast.

Burke's experienced eye would detect that if there was something in Crabbe's more Pope-like couplets that was not found in Pope, so there was something here more poignant than even in Goldsmith.
Crabbe's son reflected with just pride that there must have been something in his father's manners and bearing that at the outset invited Burke's confidence and made intimacy at once possible, although Crabbe's previous associates had been so different from the educated gentry of London.