The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of Liverpool1807 |
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accommodations adjoining amongst ancient appearance architecture bason baths beautiful brick built Byrom-street canal Castle-street chapel Charitable Institutions Cheshire chiefly church Church-street coach columns commerce Commercial Buildings commodious considerable convenient Corinthian order Dale-street direction ditto docks dome earl of Sefton eastward elegant ELLESMERE CANAL entablature entrance erected Everton Exchange-buildings expence extensive fare feet Formby front galleries gates George's-dock graving-docks handsome houses Hoylake inhabitants Ionic order Ireland Jamaica King's-dock Lancashire Liver lofty London Lord-street Manchester ment Mersey Miscellaneous Notices neat News-rooms objects Old-dock opulence Ormshead ornamented osnaburghs packets pass pediment pewed pilasters pilot Places of Worship pleasing pool port port of Liverpool present principal purpose quay respectable river river Mersey RIVER WEAVER Runcorn ships situation spacious square yards stone stranger street supported Survey terrace tide tion tons tower town of Liverpool Town-hall trade vessels warehouses West India Whitechapel whole
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Էջ 146 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Էջ 95 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
Էջ 95 - O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me...
Էջ 148 - Then Commerce brought into the public walk The busy merchant; the big warehouse built; Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street With foreign plenty; and thy stream, O Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods ! Chose for his grand resort.
Էջ 130 - America ; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Էջ 149 - Thames, Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods ! Chose for his grand resort. On either hand, Like a long wintry forest, groves of masts Shot up their spires ; the bellying sheet between Possess'd the breezy void ; the sooty hulk Steer'd sluggish on ; the splendid barge along Row'd regular, to harmony ; around, The boat, light-skimming, stretch'd its oary wings...
Էջ 87 - The form of this structure is octagonal, open at one of the sides, in which is the principal entrance. Each side of the octagon exhibits two windows, an attic balustrade runs round the whole, ornamented with vases at each angle, and in the centre is a large octagonal lantern, with small vases at the angles. A handsome iron gate and railing enclose a small area, which give an additional ornament to the building.
Էջ 36 - ... respecting the diseases, he is enabled to draw this general conclusion — that the dryness of the soil, the purity of the waters, the mildness of the air, the antiseptic effluvia of pitch and tar, the acid exhalations from the sea, the frequent brisk gales of wind, and the daily visitations of the tides, render Liverpool one of the healthiest places in the kingdom, in proportion to the number of inhabitants. The observations of the same sensible writer on the temperature of the sea at Liverpool...