Newcastle-on-Tyne: Its Municipal Origin and Growth

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Edward Arnold, 1898 - 140 pàgines

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Pàgina 20 - WHAT IS POETRY ?' An Answer to the Question, ' What is Poetry ?' including Remarks on Versification. By LEIGH HUNT. Edited, with notes, by Professor AS COOK. Crown 8vo., cloth, 2s. 6d.
Pàgina 24 - One of the very rare novels which yield so much pleasure that it almost stifles criticism. Miss Coleridge's quality is that of perfectly original brilliancy in romantic narration. Her style is at once placid and spirited, full of colour without heaviness and luxury, correct, rapid, adequate, with no tedious research of " the word,
Pàgina 11 - Studies,' etc. With a Portrait of Mr. Gladstone. Large crown 8vo., cloth, 6s. ' An extremely agreeable volume, in the production of which Mr. Tollemache's rare talents for the difficult art which he practises claim a creditably large and important share. '—Literature. ' Reams have been written about Mr. Gladstone within the last few weeks, but no sketch of him can approach in vividness and veracity such records as Mr. Tollemache preserves to us of his casual conversations upon everything under...
Pàgina 91 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Pàgina 91 - Now have we many chimnies; and yet out tender**** complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses; then had we none but reredosses, and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacke or pose, wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
Pàgina 90 - Within thirty years last, the nice dames of London would not come into any house, or room, where seacoals were burned, nor willingly eat of the meat that was either sod or roasted with sea-coal fire.
Pàgina 98 - Master Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds; who brought with him many rare engines, not known then in these parts — as, the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the...
Pàgina 11 - BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. Talks with Mr. Gladstone. By the Hon. LA TOLLEMACHE, Author of 'Benjamin Jowett,' 'Safe Studies,' etc. With a Portrait of Mr. Gladstone. Large crown 8vo., cloth, 6s. ' An extremely agreeable volume, in the production of which Mr. Tollemache's rare talents for the difficult art which he practises claim a creditably large and important share.

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