Lancashire WorthiesSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1874 - 469 pages |
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... centuries later , after the restoration of Charles II . , were raised to the baronetage . From Sir John Stanley , a younger brother of the first Stan- ley , whom marriage made owner of Hooton , have sprung the Stanleys of Knowsley in ...
... centuries later , after the restoration of Charles II . , were raised to the baronetage . From Sir John Stanley , a younger brother of the first Stan- ley , whom marriage made owner of Hooton , have sprung the Stanleys of Knowsley in ...
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... century afterwards on a much more famous occasion . " Also , " the petition of the indig- nant Commons continues , " where [ as ] your said Highness gave in commandment to your first begotten son , Edward , Prince of Wales " -murdered ...
... century afterwards on a much more famous occasion . " Also , " the petition of the indig- nant Commons continues , " where [ as ] your said Highness gave in commandment to your first begotten son , Edward , Prince of Wales " -murdered ...
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... century England . What mattered it whether an amiable and pious imbecile like Henry VI . , with a vindictive French wife , or a dashing and rather ruthless voluptuary like Edward IV . was King ? Even Richard III . seems to have been ...
... century England . What mattered it whether an amiable and pious imbecile like Henry VI . , with a vindictive French wife , or a dashing and rather ruthless voluptuary like Edward IV . was King ? Even Richard III . seems to have been ...
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... centuries have elapsed . The vicissitudes of time and of succession have shorn them of many of their old posses sions . They have ceased to be Lords of the Isle of Man , and , even in their own county , Latham , long their head ...
... centuries have elapsed . The vicissitudes of time and of succession have shorn them of many of their old posses sions . They have ceased to be Lords of the Isle of Man , and , even in their own county , Latham , long their head ...
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... century . Το Lancashire men few bishops can be more interesting than the Tudor prelate who founded the Manchester Free Gram- mar School , with its long line of distinguished alumni , from Bradford , the martyr , to De Quincey , the ...
... century . Το Lancashire men few bishops can be more interesting than the Tudor prelate who founded the Manchester Free Gram- mar School , with its long line of distinguished alumni , from Bradford , the martyr , to De Quincey , the ...
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Page 262 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or...
Page 213 - I believe you have heard, that after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the Box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator 7.
Page 47 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And — STANLEY! was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on I'* Were the last words of Marmion.
Page 46 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 46 - Rushed with bare bosom on the spear, And flung the feeble targe aside, And with both hands the broadsword plied, 'Twas vain: — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight.
Page 18 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 468 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
Page 217 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Page 237 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.