Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...: 1854-1856, Volumes 7-8Society, 1855 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... side of the skeleton lies usually ( though not always ) a long iron broad - sword , not much unlike the claymore of the Scottish highlander , of which it is perhaps the prototype . Its most usual form is that represented in the annexed ...
... side of the skeleton lies usually ( though not always ) a long iron broad - sword , not much unlike the claymore of the Scottish highlander , of which it is perhaps the prototype . Its most usual form is that represented in the annexed ...
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... number of articles of utility , as well as of ornament . By a lady's side , we usually find the remains , more or less perfect , of a bunch of domestic implements , somewhat resembling the article brought into fashion 14.
... number of articles of utility , as well as of ornament . By a lady's side , we usually find the remains , more or less perfect , of a bunch of domestic implements , somewhat resembling the article brought into fashion 14.
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... side of it , a bag of some kind , containing other articles used by the ladies , for we frequently find on the spot where it has lain a heap of small articles , which are at times tolerably preserved , but in others the iron is so much ...
... side of it , a bag of some kind , containing other articles used by the ladies , for we frequently find on the spot where it has lain a heap of small articles , which are at times tolerably preserved , but in others the iron is so much ...
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... side by side , and arm in arm , with their mouths turned towards each other , and close together , as though taking a last embrace . In one grave I found the bodies of a man and his wife , and daughter , a little girl , as appeared by ...
... side by side , and arm in arm , with their mouths turned towards each other , and close together , as though taking a last embrace . In one grave I found the bodies of a man and his wife , and daughter , a little girl , as appeared by ...
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... side is Dr. Johnson , whose judgment later writers have too commonly adopted without enquiry , and repeated with mischievous assiduity . It may seem presumptuous to impeach such Lectures on English Poetry , pp . 66 , 67 . + Johnson's ...
... side is Dr. Johnson , whose judgment later writers have too commonly adopted without enquiry , and repeated with mischievous assiduity . It may seem presumptuous to impeach such Lectures on English Poetry , pp . 66 , 67 . + Johnson's ...
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Página 47 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 49 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos,...
Página 119 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 47 - ... prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 58 - On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; Nothing is there To come, and nothing Past, But an Eternal Now does always last.
Página 55 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Página 39 - It is worth while here to observe, that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day.
Página 43 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página 43 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Página 58 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.