Lawson's Tyneside Celebrities: Sketches of the Lives and Labours of Famous Men of the NorthThe author, 1873 - 387 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance afterwards appear aquatic artist attained attention became Bewick boat born career Charles Avison Church circumstances claim colliery Collingwood connection considerable death Derwentwater devoted distinguished district divine doubt Duns Scotus Durham duties Earl early efforts Elliot Elswick eminent engaged engine entered equally fame father favour Gateshead genius George Stephenson Grey heart honour Hutton interest inventor Jarrow John Joseph Cowen Killingworth labour latter lives London Lord ments mind native Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne North of England Northern character Northumberland Northumbrian period perseverance position possessed present profession professional purpose readers regarded reputation respect Richard Grainger Ridley Robert Stephenson Rowing Club Scott Shield sketch South Shields sphere spirit sport success superior talent Thomas Thomas Bewick Thomas Binney tion town Town Moor Tyne Tyne Improvement Commission Tyneside Celebrities William William Shield Wood Engraving worthy youth zeal
Pasajes populares
Página 119 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness : According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Página 147 - Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from...
Página 55 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 146 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Página 98 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow: When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 104 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Página 148 - O ye dales Of Tyne, and ye most ancient woodlands ; where Oft as the giant flood obliquely strides, And his banks open, and his lawns extend, Stops short the pleased traveller to view, Presiding o'er the scene, some rustic tower Founded by Norman or by Saxon hands...
Página 386 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over
Página 74 - It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee.
Página 148 - Wensbeck's limpid stream; How gladly I recall your well-known seats Beloved of old, and that delightful time When all alone, for many a summer's day, 1 wandered through your calm recesses, led In silence by some powerful hand unseen.