Memorials of Liverpool, Historical and Topographical: TopographicalLongmans, Green & Company, 1873 |
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acres adjoining afterwards Aigburth amongst ancient architecture Bootle borough Breck Road brick Brooks building built called carried Castle Street CHAP Chapel character clerestory Colquitt commenced corner corporation cottages Dale Street decease district Duke Earl of Derby early east side eastward Edward erected established Everton extending formed formerly front gardens George George's George's Hall Hall Hanover Street Henry Hill James John Kirkdale laid land Lane last century lease Liverpool London Lord Street manor mansion mayor ment Messrs Molyneux Moore neighbourhood north side northward occupied original Parliament pleasant pool portion present purchased railway remained removed resided Road Roscoe Salthouse Dock south side spire square stands Stanley Park stone stood style subsequently Terrace Thomas Thomas Rickman tion tower town Toxteth Park villas Wavertree West Derby west side William yards СНАР
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Page 481 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 137 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 304 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 228 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 40 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 1 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 96 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say To-morrow is Saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 57 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs...
Page 247 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 199 - This fated sign- their foundress Juno gave, Of a soil fruitful, and a people brave. Sidonian Dido here with solemn state Did Juno's temple build, and consecrate, Enrich'd with gifts, and with a golden shrine; But more the goddess made the place divine. On brazen steps the marble threshold rose, And brazen plates the cedar beams inclose : The rafters are with brazen cov'rings crown'd; The lofty doors on brazen hinges sound.