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Page 257 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 268 - Child of the Islands ; a Poem. By the HON. MRS. NORTON. Second Edition. Square 8vo, cloth. 6*. Nuts and Nutcrackers. With upwards of 50 Illustrations by
Page 161 - I have never known persons who exposed themselves for years to constant interruption who did not muddle away their intellects by it at last.
Page 391 - Next year he returned again, with some other of his townsmen, proffering drier and dearer cloth to be sold ; so that within a few years hither came a confluence of buyers, sellers, and lookers-on, which are the three principles of a fair.
Page 500 - All roughnesses had previously been -removed by a " cropping" machine After drying, it comes to the printing-table, where it is treated much like a paper-hanging. This is all very well ; but what is to be done in case of a shower of rain ? a not improbable incident in the life of a shawl. A paper-hanging would not stand a driving rain. Are ladies imposed upon in this matter, when they are offered a gay-printed shawl as wearable out of doors ? By no means. Nobody knows how it is, but the fact is certain,...
Page 495 - ... and warping we need not speak, as they are much the same to the observer's and therefore to the reader's eye, as the preparation of yarns for carpets in Kendal, and of silk for ribbons in Coventry. While the washing and drying, and the dyeing and drying again are proceeding, the higher labor of preparing the pattern is advancing. But how much of the lower kind of work can be done during the slow elaboration of the higher ! It really requires some patience and fortitude even to witness the mighty...
Page 497 - Boys then fasten each symbol of a hue to a netting of whipeord, by that tail of the netting which, by its knots, signifies that particular hue ; so that, when the weaving comes to be done, the boy, pulling the symbolic cord, raises the threads of the warp — green, blue, or other, — which are required for that throw of the shuttle. Thus the work is really all done beforehand, except the mere putting together of the threads ; done, moreover, by anybody but the weaver, who is, to say the truth,...
Page 499 - Thus the designing and colouring-rooms contain much that pleases the eye, though one does not see there the means and appliances which fill some apartment or another of Birmingham factories — the casts from the antique, the volumes of plates, the flower in water, and so on. The preparation of the blocks for printing, and yet more the application of them, reminded us of the paperstaining, which wo had certainly never thought of before in connexion with shawls.
Page 497 - lashing" is read off from the pattern, too, in the same way as with carpet patterns at Kendal ; so many threads being taken up and interlaced with twine for a red stitch, and then so many more for a green, and so on. Boys then fasten each symbol of a hue to a netting of whipcord...
Page 497 - ... Thus the work is really all done beforehand, except the mere putting together of the threads ; done, moreover, by anybody but the weaver, who is, to say the truth, a. mere shuttle-throwing machine. The poor man does not even see and know what he is doing. The wrong side of the shawl is uppermost ; and not even such a wrong side as we see, which gives some notion of the pattern on the other. Previous to cutting, the wrong side of a shawl is a loose surface of floating threads of all colors ; of...