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Old and New Rochdale and Its People: Being a Companion Volume to "Rochdale ... William Robertson Попередній перегляд недоступний - 1881 |
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Alderman Amen Corner amongst amusement Ashworth Barnish became bird Blackstone Edge Brierley building butcher called carried Castleton Chad's Chapel Church Lane Church Stile Clegg cloth cottages Crompton custom daughter dinner door Drake-street ducking stool enquired erected favourite flannel friends gentleman Hall hand Heape heard hearse Hollingworth Lake horse inhabitants James James Clegg James Dearden John John Bright John Chadwick Julius Cæsar Kelsall Lancashire landlord large number Lord Lord-street magistrates Manchester manufacturers Market Marland merchant Messrs mill Milnrow morning native neighbourhood neighbours night occupied Packer Meadow Packer-street parish person piece present public-house replied resided returned Road Robert Roby Rochdale round Royds scene sexton shillings Smallbridge soldiers soon Sparrow Hill Spotland stood street Sunday Taylor Thomas Toad Lane Todmorden Tommy took town trade Vavasour visited walked Wardleworth watch watchman Waugh weaver wife William Wood yards Yorkshire-street young
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Сторінка 162 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Сторінка 53 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Сторінка 150 - There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight.
Сторінка 236 - The little I have seen of the world, and know of the history of mankind, teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
Сторінка 151 - ... shutters hanging about the windows in rags of rotten wood ; before its gate, the stream which had gladdened it now soaking slowly by, black as ebony and thick with curdling scum ; the bank above it trodden into unctuous, sooty slime : far in front of it, between it and the old hills, the furnaces of the city foaming forth perpetual plague of sulphurous darkness ; the volumes of their storm clouds coiling low over a waste of grassless fields, fenced from each other, not by hedges, but by slabs...
Сторінка 5 - Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug, A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only,
Сторінка 251 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner ; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still...
Сторінка 151 - Charles's times, with mullioned windows and a low arched porch; round which, in the little triangular garden, one can imagine the family as they used to sit in old summer times, the ripple of the river heard faintly through the sweet-briar hedge, and the sheep on the far-off wolds shining in the evening sunlight.
Сторінка 151 - ... the shutters hanging about the windows in rags of rotten wood; before its gate, the stream which had gladdened it now soaking slowly by, black as ebony and thick with curdling scum ; the bank above it trodden into unctuous, sooty slime...
Сторінка 215 - ... poetical feeling into the common people, and to sweeten and soften the rudeness of rustic manners, without destroying their simplicity. Indeed, it is to the decline of this happy simplicity that the decline of this custom may be traced; and the rural dance on the green and the homely Mayday pageant have gradually disappeared, in proportion as the peasantry have become expensive and artificial in their pleasures, and too knowing for simple enjoyment.