The Stranger in Liverpool, Or, An Historical and Descriptive View of the Town of Liverpool and Its EnvironsThos. Kaye, 1812 - 206 sivua |
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accommodation adjoining appearance architecture basin bath Bidston hill brick Bristol built Byrom-street canal castle Castle-street centre chapel Charitable Institutions charity charter Cheshire Chester chiefly Church-street coach columns commerce commodious constructed convenient Dale-street direction docks dome earl of Sefton east elegant ELLESMERE CANAL entablature entrance erected Everton extensive feet formed formerly front gallery gates George's-dock graving-docks ground handsome Henry II houses inhabitants Ionic order Lancashire Liver lofty London Manchester mayor ments Mersey miles Miscellaneous Notices neat NEWS-ROOM objects Old-dock ornamented panoramic paintings Paradise-street pass pediment persons pewed pilasters Places of Worship pool port present prince Rupert principal purpose quay Queen's-dock respectable river river Weaver rivers Mersey Runcorn sail Seacomb Ships belonging shore situation south end spacious spire square yards stone stranger street subscription supported Survey tide tion tons tower town of Liverpool Town-hall trade vessels warehouses whole Wirral peninsula
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Sivu 110 - 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 ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Sivu 165 - 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...
Sivu 110 - Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without...
Sivu 110 - O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree?
Sivu 162 - O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Sivu 164 - 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.
Sivu 103 - 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.
Sivu 49 - For some years he chiefly made use of the writings of Lansberg, to the neglect of the more valuable works of Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and other excellent astronomers, which was afterwards a subject of much regret with him. About the year 1636 he formed an acquaintance with Mr. William Crabtree, of Broughton, near Manchester, whose genius led him to the same studies, but, owing to the distance at which they lived from each other, they could have little correspondence except by letters, which, however,...
Sivu 89 - School, who are regularly marched in procession from the school to the church, somewhat earlier than the time of service, had partly entered. The boys following last all escaped, but of the girls, who were either entering the porch...