Lancashire Illustrated: From Original Drawings, by S. Austin, J. Harwood, and G & C. Pyne, &c. &c., with Historical & Topographical DescriptionsHenry Fisher, Son & Peter Jackson, 1832 - 112 strani |
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Abbey accommodation act of parliament ancient appearance arches architecture beautiful Bolton borough building built canal Castle centre Chapel Cheshire Chetham Childwall columns commenced considerable contains Corinthian cotton Docks Doric Duke Earl of Derby edifice Edward elegant Engraved entablature entrance erected exhibits extensive feet FISHER formerly front Furness Abbey George's Church ground Hall handsome Harwood height Henry hundred inhabitants institution interior Ionic Ionic columns Ionic order John KNOWSLEY HALL Lancashire Lancaster Liverpool London Lord Street Lune magnificent Manchester manor mansion manufacture market-place Mersey miles nearly neighbourhood noble occupied opened ornamented parish pediment picturesque pilasters pillars port portico possession present Preston principal proprietor reign river river Lune river Mersey Salford Salthouse Dock seat shewn side situated spacious square stands stone structure style supported surmounted Todmorden tower town Town-hall trade vessels warehouses Warrington whole yards
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Stran 43 - It seems a day (I speak of one from many singled out) One of those heavenly days that cannot die ; When, in the eagerness of boyish hope, I left our cottage-threshold, sallying forth With a huge wallet o'er my shoulders slung, A nutting-crook in hand ; and turned my steps...
Stran 67 - She would not leave the place ; she wandered about, forlorn and amazed. She would not quit her horse, and get into the cart with them. They determined, after much time wasted, to turn back, and give themselves up to the guidance of their horses. The old woman was soon washed off and perished. The poor girls clung close to their cart, and the horse, sometimes wading, and sometimes swimming, brought them back to land alive, but senseless with terror and distress, and unable for many days to give any...
Stran 43 - Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung, A virgin scene! - A little while I stood, Breathing with such suppression of the heart As joy delights in; and, with wise restraint Voluptuous, fearless of a rival...
Stran 81 - It does not appear that his patron paid any attention to his early education, and his father had no higher ambition than to make him acquainted with writing and arithmetic. Through an obstinacy of temper, which in some minds is the forerunner of genius, Roscoe could not be prevailed upon to submit to the drudgery of scholastic discipline ; and, consequently, did not properly avail himself even of the small advantages of education which his parents were able to afford him. It was, however, his merit...
Stran 67 - They staid a little while for him but in vain. They called aloud, but no reply ; at last the young women pressed their mother to think where they were, and go on. She would not leave the place ; she wandered about, forlorn and amazed.
Stran 81 - A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Raymond Harris ; " and shortly afterwards his principal poem,
Stran 43 - ... forty. Eight streets extend through the centre, crossed by fifteen others. The town, which is about two miles in length and half a mile in breadth, has been greatly improved in consequence of extensive conflagrations, which, consuming large portions of it, made way for better and more regular buildings. The streets are now generally spacious, the principal one well paved, and the others macadamized. The...
Stran 67 - Pooton, which stands on the beach. An old fisherman mending his nets (while I enquired about the danger of passing those sands) told me in his dialect a moving story. How a brother of the trade, a cockier (as he styled him) driving a little cart with two daughters (women grown) in it, and his wife on horseback following, set out one day to pass the...
Stran 19 - William returning from the wars came in a palmer's habett amongst the poor to Haghe, who when she saw and congetringe that he favoured her former husband, wept, for which the Knight chastised her, at which Sir William went and made himself known to his tenants; in which space the Knight fled but near to Newton Parke Sir William overtook him and...
Stran 79 - Chetham became a father of the fatherless and destitute ; and during his life " maintained fourteen poor boys of the town of Manchester, six of the town of Salford, and two of the town of Droylsden ; in all twenty-two.