Lancashire Characters and PlacesBrook & Chrystal, 1891 - 153 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient Bacup BARDSLEY Barrel Organ beauty Brandwood called century chapel church circumstance Clitheroe Cliviger Clough composer cotton Crawshawbooth Cribden cuck stool Derplay Hill dialect Dick district duties Edwin Waugh extent Factory Doffers father favourite Forest of Rossendale genius gentlemen George GRAVIS Greave GULLIVER gulls habits Halmot Court hand HEAVISIDES honourable humour hymn tunes inhabitants Irwell Jack o'th James Leach John John Critchley joke Julius Cæsar labour lads Lancashire LANCASHIRE CHARACTERS lasses Layrocks look Manchester melody mill mind Moor moorland morning Moss Musbury nature neighbouring never Nook o'er office of ale-taster origin pieces pipe pleasant poems poet poetic poor present Prince Rawtenstall remarks river River Irwell road Rochdale rock Rossendale valley Rough Lee round scarcely Sharneyford side singer sketch song spirit stream taste thae village Whalley whilst WHISTLER Whitaker writings
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Página 91 - Come, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 "Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus.
Página 18 - ... see that the ale sold in the town was of the proper quality and also that it was sold at the prices fixed by Act of Parliament. They also had to see that all the bread sold in the town was duly weighed and sold according to the prices fixed by Act of Parliament. The oath they were required to take was as follows : "You shall swear, That you shall well and truly serve our Sovereign the Queen, and the Lord of this Court, in the Office of Ale-taster, or assise, within this Lordship for this year...
Página 31 - at times are so nippin', A mon's at a troublesome schoo', That slaves like a horse for a livin', An' flings it away like a foo ; But, as pleasur's sometimes a misfortin
Página 31 - An' a nice little white cotton bo' ; An' aw kiss'd her again ; but hoo said At hoo wanted to kiss thee an' o'. An' Dick, too, aw'd sich wark wi...
Página 18 - ... of them do make good and wholesome ale and beer for man's body, and that the same be not sold before it be assayed by you, and then to be sold according to the prices limited and appointed by the king's justices of the peace; and all faults committed or done by the bakers, brewers or tiplers, or by any of them, you shall make known, and present the same at this court, whereby due punishment may be inflicted upon them for their offenees accordingly, and in every other thing you shall well and...
Página 82 - Rossendale with lavish prodigality, 81 and all have contributed to raise her to her present importance as a manufacturing district. There is little of what is called "ancient blood" in the locality. A few of the oldest families can trace their ancestors back through two or three centuries, but the chief men of wealth and position have risen from the ranks. The spirit of absenteeism has never prevailed to any extent amongst those who have amassed fortunes in the district, and this is one key to its...
Página 9 - Did God set his fountains of light in the skies, That man should look up with the tears in his eyes? Did God make this earth so abundant and fair, That Man should look down with a groan of despair ? Did God fill the world with harmonious life, That Man should go forth with destruction and strife ? Did God scatter freedom o'er mountain and wave, That Man should exist as a tyrant and slave ? Away with so hopeless— so joyless a creed, For the soul that believes it is darkened indeed...
Página 77 - Roll, after which leases and grants as is aforesd. had and made, the said Inhabitants and takers thereof have Edified and Builded houses and Tents within the said Forrest, and have inhabited the same ; so that where before that time was nothing else but Deer and other savage and wild beasts, there is since then, by the industry and labour of the Inhabits., grown to be a very good and fertile ground ; and the same 'at this day is become very populous, and well inhabited, and replenished with a great...
Página 132 - ... And her fair silver load in Le'rpoole down doth lay. " A road none more renown'd in the Vergivian sea. " Ye lusty lasses, then, in Lancashire that dwell, " For beauty that are said to bear away the bell. " Your country's hornpipe ye so mincingly that tread, " As ye the egg-pye love, and apple cheery red, " In all your mirthful songs and merry meetings tell " That Erwell every way doth Ribble far excel.
Página 10 - Old farms remote and far apart, with intervening space Of black'ning rock, and barren down, and pasture's pleasant face ; The white and winding road, that crept through village, vale, and glen, And o'er the dreary moorlands, far beyond the homes of men.