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... stand revealed : a series of little rooms , about ten feet by eight , generally floored with brick or stone ; a substantial deal - table in the centre , and chairs and stools to correspond . Sometimes you perceive a little mahogany ...
... stand revealed : a series of little rooms , about ten feet by eight , generally floored with brick or stone ; a substantial deal - table in the centre , and chairs and stools to correspond . Sometimes you perceive a little mahogany ...
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... stand is as dark as old mahogany , from the continued oil - dripping ; and it is really pitiful to see a pretty piecer with her bare feet and ankles the precise colour of the boards she treads on . In respect to physical appearance and ...
... stand is as dark as old mahogany , from the continued oil - dripping ; and it is really pitiful to see a pretty piecer with her bare feet and ankles the precise colour of the boards she treads on . In respect to physical appearance and ...
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... stand in not a very much better position in the bills of mortality than their metropolis . In Salford , 1 dies in 34 ; in Bolton , 1 in 37 ; in Rochdale and Preston , 1 in 38. There are two causes , indirectly indeed connected with ...
... stand in not a very much better position in the bills of mortality than their metropolis . In Salford , 1 dies in 34 ; in Bolton , 1 in 37 ; in Rochdale and Preston , 1 in 38. There are two causes , indirectly indeed connected with ...
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... attaining a certain age , stand very well up in the sanitary proportion ; and there can be as little doubt that the mortality which does prevail among the Manchester working population at large , is to 14 THE COTTON METROPOLIS .
... attaining a certain age , stand very well up in the sanitary proportion ; and there can be as little doubt that the mortality which does prevail among the Manchester working population at large , is to 14 THE COTTON METROPOLIS .
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... stands thus : The hours in which it is lawful to work a cotton - mill are from half - past five o'clock A. M. to ... stand , two hands are made to relieve each other in such a manner , that while each only works ten hours , he or she is ...
... stands thus : The hours in which it is lawful to work a cotton - mill are from half - past five o'clock A. M. to ... stand , two hands are made to relieve each other in such a manner , that while each only works ten hours , he or she is ...
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Страница 31 - 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.
Страница 30 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Страница 5 - 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.
Страница 8 - 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.
Страница 1 - 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...
Страница 28 - 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.
Страница 24 - 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...
Страница 9 - 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...
Страница 15 - 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...
Страница 5 - 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...