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Sometimes you perceive a little mahogany table ; and a feature of Manchester
operative dwellings , is a curiously small sofa of common material ; sometimes
there is a vast cupboard with a shining assortment of plates and jugs ; sometimes
...
Sometimes you perceive a little mahogany table ; and a feature of Manchester
operative dwellings , is a curiously small sofa of common material ; sometimes
there is a vast cupboard with a shining assortment of plates and jugs ; sometimes
...
Էջ 8
It is time , however , to pass from the sleeping - home of the spinners and the
piecers to their working - home — the factory - to the great rooms or sheds , as
they are called , where the allotted ten hours , sometimes lengthened out by
ingenious ...
It is time , however , to pass from the sleeping - home of the spinners and the
piecers to their working - home — the factory - to the great rooms or sheds , as
they are called , where the allotted ten hours , sometimes lengthened out by
ingenious ...
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This he sometimes consumes at home , sometimes at a neighbouring cookshop ,
and sometimes has brought to the mill . A favourite popular dish is potato - pie ' -
a substantial pasty made of meat and potatoes , with a formidably thick roofing ...
This he sometimes consumes at home , sometimes at a neighbouring cookshop ,
and sometimes has brought to the mill . A favourite popular dish is potato - pie ' -
a substantial pasty made of meat and potatoes , with a formidably thick roofing ...
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Sometimes a wetnurse is clubbed for by three and even four women . Mr
Coulthard has seen one so exhausted “ as to be unable to walk across the room ,
' while the children were almost unable to move their hands or feet . ' The
wetnurse ...
Sometimes a wetnurse is clubbed for by three and even four women . Mr
Coulthard has seen one so exhausted “ as to be unable to walk across the room ,
' while the children were almost unable to move their hands or feet . ' The
wetnurse ...
Էջ 23
... place sentimental ditty , while sometimes there occurs a song not of the most
decorous character . This last , however , is decidedly an exception to the rule .
Dancing is much relished , and all sorts of hornpipes are the staple performances
.
... place sentimental ditty , while sometimes there occurs a song not of the most
decorous character . This last , however , is decidedly an exception to the rule .
Dancing is much relished , and all sorts of hornpipes are the staple performances
.
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Էջ 1 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 7 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Էջ 10 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 3 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Էջ 30 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 26 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Էջ 11 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Էջ 17 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Էջ 7 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...