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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrases23rd Nov amongst ancient Anglo-Saxon antiquary antiquities appear Attacotti August beautiful Bidston Britain British Bryan Faussett cemetery century character Charles Roach Smith Cheshire Chester Church cobalt colour commenced contained crystals deaf and dumb district Donations were laid England Everton exhibited fibula following Donations friends Genus geometrical given glass graves Henry Historic Society illustration inch inscription Institution interest John July king Lancashire Lancashire and Cheshire larva letter Little Wilbraham Liverpool London Lord Manchester manufacture meeting Members natural objects observed original ornamented paper parish period persons Picts population portion possession pottery present printed remains remarkable respecting Roman Saxon Selzen shew Simonswood snow species specimens stone street sugar supposed Swale taken Thomas tion toad town tumuli volume Wallasey ware Warrington Warrington Academy Waverton whole William writes Popular passagesPage 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. Page 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,... Page 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. Page 47 - ... prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Page 60 - 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. Page 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. Page 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. Page 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. Page 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. Page 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. References from web pagesThe Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the history of ... local studies - transactions and proceedings of learned societies Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire ... Coastal Heritage research Duke of Bridgewater Archive Journals T Old Old Violl and Other Lumber: Published Sources NOTE OF A STONE ON THE MOOR NEAR DULLATUK, CALLED THE CARRICK ... MONUMENT NO. 41221 , Investigation History |