Lancashire MemoriesMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 199 páginas |
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Página 24 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Página 90 - A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains : A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied : But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
Página 1 - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Página 81 - Harry of a nang-nail, almost fifty-five yards long, surely I can cure this poor man. — Here, Jack ; take a little out of my bottle, and let it run down thy throttle ; if thou be not quite slain, rise, Jack, and fight again — (Slasher rises.) Slasher.
Página 167 - ... of age, and had soft, thick, brown hair, and peculiar eyes, of which I find it difficult to give a description. They were of a greenish brown, and, with the least emotion, seemed to fill, as it were, with light, like the flashing brilliancy of moonshine upon water. At half past six in the morning it was her duty to call us, and about seven we came down stairs. We practiced our scales, and looked over the lessons we had prepared the evening before, till half past eight o'clock, when Mrs.
Página 161 - O PRAISE ye the Lord ! prepare a new song, And let all his saints in full concert join : With voices united the anthem prolong, And show forth his praises with music divine. 2 Let praise to the Lord, who made us, ascend ; Let each grateful heart be glad in its King ; The God whom we worship, our songs will attend, And view with complacence the offering we bring. 3 Be joyful, y9...
Página 56 - This copy is now in my possession, having purchased it at the sale of his Grace's library, and I need not add that I esteem it as one of my greatest literary treasures. Looking back, the happiness of my young life is associated with her; looking forward, I have comfort and satisfaction in the hope of rejoining dear grandmamma.
Página 53 - There was the fool, a hideous figure in a horrid mask, with onions for ear-rings and a cow's tail for a pig-tail, belabouring the crowd with an inflated bladder at the end of a very long pole. It was a point of honour to appear much amused with his antics, but many a little heart quaked under its assumed bravery. The procession was closed by two garlands, carried aloft, of coloured paper cut into familiar devices; and at the close of the day, the rush-cart was taken to pieces, the rushes strewed...
Página 44 - An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The...