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...speed, Hurries its waters to the T weed. No longer Autumn’s glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more, beneath the evening beam, Fair T we... ...Again the hawthorn shall supply The garlands you delight to tie; The lambs upon the lea shall bound, The wild birds carol to the round, And while you ... ...ul bells ne’er sent around The bloody tocsin’s maddening sound, But still, upon the hallowed day, Convoke the swains to praise and pray; While faith a... ...s each castle, town, and tower, In which the wine and ale is good, ‘T wixt Newcastle and Holyrood. But that good man, as ill befalls, Hath seldom left... ...oned to Lindisfarne, she came, There, with Saint Cuthbert’s Abbot old, And Tynemouth’s Prioress, to hold A chapter of Saint Benedict, For inquisition ... ...nd catch the nuns’ delighted eyes. Monkwearmouth soon behind them lay, And Tynemouth’s priory and bay; They marked, amid her trees, the hall Of lofty ... ...: Yon shrouded figure, as I guess, By her proud mien and flowing dress, Is Tynemouth’s haughty Prioress, And she with awe looks pale: And he, that ...

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...ace. The mutual protection afforded by Waverley and T albot to each other, upon which the whole plot depends, is founded upon one of those anecdotes w... ...although, according to the example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topogra... ...to avoid them as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narra- tive upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to me... ... conceal, that, having been bred in the nursery line with Sumack & Co., of Newcastle, he sometimes wrought a turn in the flower- borders to oblige the... ..., on this occasion, as having saved his guest’s life. [The thrust from the tynes, or branches, of the stag’s horns, was accounted far more dangerous t...

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...Angler — Walton 8 shall meet a pack of Otter dogs of noble Mr. Sadler’s, upon Amwell Hill, who will be there so early, that they intend to prevent t... ...Scoffer, yet I have, I pray let me speak it without offence, always looked upon Anglers, as more patient, and more simple men, than I fear I shall fin... ...r up on high, and when they are lost in the sight of men, then they attend upon and converse with the Gods; therefore I think my Eagle is so justly st... ...northern banks is seated the strong and impreg nable town of Berwick. 6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible coal pits. These, and the... ... seated the strong and impreg nable town of Berwick. 6. Tyne, famous for Newcastle, and her inexhaustible coal pits. These, and the rest of principa...

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...is figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights....

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... table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and c... ...e—and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent in anxious medi- tation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, combined with the silence... ...th of January between seven and eight hun- dred tradesmen had assembled in Paris to discuss a new tax which was to be levied on house property. They d... ...os believed they were going, but to Durham, whither Mordaunt had been ordered to repair by the letter he had received during his sojourn at Boulogne, ... ... they were going, but to Durham, whither Mordaunt had been ordered to repair by the letter he had received during his sojourn at Boulogne, and accompa... ...also appareled as a cavalier, was talking to a Scotch sentinel, and, though a foreigner, he seemed to understand without much difficulty the answers g... ...e without conferring pleasure. You whose devotion recognizes neither country nor misfortune, you who are sent to me by Henrietta; whatever news you br... ..., I raised it and saw all, heard all!” “And when is this to be consummated?” “To-day—this morning; so your majesty must perceive there is no time to l... ...m with your majesty’s.” “Well!” said Athos, “since you have not a regiment, we are three devoted men. It is enough. Let your majesty mount on horsebac...

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...tan plaid, watching the very looks of her brother, to her the greatest man upon earth, and actively looking out for him, in his silver-clasped Bible, ... ...wanderings. Even the Happy Valley of Rasselas would have sunk into nothing upon the comparison. He came— he revisited the loved scene; it was but a st... ... a northern tor- rent. This was not the worst. The fires had been quenched upon thirty hearths—of the cottage of his fathers he could but distinguish ... ...ate action of Long-Marston Moor, in which Prince Rupert and the Marquis of Newcastle were de- feated. The Scottish auxiliaries, indeed, had less of th... ...in the north of England, who, in obedience to the orders of the Marquis of Newcastle, he ex- pected would have marched into Scotland; but the disincli... ...y at- tached to the Covenant, that he was the first, in 1639, to cross the Tyne, wading middle deep at the head of his regi- ment, to charge the royal...

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...Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, -- broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water....

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...d is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, — b... ...over their forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and the savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the ... ... both very useful things, as you know, and both produced to this very hour upon the sea coast. The most celebrated tin mines in Cornwall are, still, c... ...of earth, more than seventy miles Charles Dickens 17 long, extending from Newcastle to beyond Carlisle, for the purpose of keeping out the Picts and ... ...ful days of the Normans, there was not, from the River Humber to the River Tyne, one inhabited village left, nor one cultivated field—how there was no... ...His head was set upon a pole on Lon don Bridge, his right arm was sent to Newcastle, his left arm to Berwick, his legs to Perth and Aberdeen. But, if... ...er, the King’s cousin, they first of all attacked the King and Gaveston at Newcastle. They had time to escape by sea, and the mean King, having his pr... ...nquering Scotland was still popular at home, the King marched to the river Tyne and demanded homage of the King of that country. This being refused, h...

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...e ship’s going away from her port any more than the Landfall can be looked upon as the synonym of arrival. But there is this differ- ence in the Depar... ... the 5 Joseph Conrad devious tracings the course of a sailing-ship leaves upon the white paper of a chart she is always aim- ing for that one little ... ... that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a lighthouse on a bluff, or simply the ... ...atural exploitation. In this it differs from Liverpool, from Cardiff, from Newcastle, from Glasgow; and therein the Thames differs from the Mersey, fr... ...le, from Glasgow; and therein the Thames differs from the Mersey, from the Tyne, from the Clyde. It is an historical river; it is a romantic stream fl...

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...w. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book to illustrate all the phases of Johnson?s mind and of his time which Boswell observed....

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... tees, of opening the book of random, and read- ing wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been r... ...’s mind and of his time which Boswell observed. Loyal Johnsonians may look upon such a book with a measure of scorn. I could not have made it, had I n... ... his regard for truth. In him it was a passion. Again and again he insists upon his authenticity. He developed an infallible gust and unerring relish ... ...3.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ 278 Boswell’s Life of Johnson TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. ‘Newcastle, Aug. 11, 1773. ‘DEAR SIR, I came hither last night, and hope, bu... ...ng that one of the fellows, his friend Mr. Scott, who accompanied him from Newcastle to Edinburgh, was gone to the coun- try. We put up at the Angel i... ...nt author- ity. He did not take time enough to examine the girl. It was at Newcastle, where the ghost was said to have appeared to a young woman sever... ... the con- versation concerning the appearance of a ghost at Newcastle upon Tyne, which Mr. John Wesley believed, but to which Johnson did not give cre...

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...w- ers—flowers, at the best, how frail and few! —which some- times settles upon his haughty brow. There is no end, there never will be an end, of the ... ...ntations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobrium of human pride—the everlasting mutabilities of al... ... the shadowy present, the hollowness, the blank treachery of hol- lowness, upon which all the pomps and vanities of life ulti- mately repose. This tri... ...is- tory of England to the end of George I., Vol. iv., p. 1760, printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1751.) ‘The crown being too little for the King’s head... ...land to the end of George I., Vol. iv., p. 1760, printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1751.) ‘The crown being too little for the King’s head, was often in ...

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... of the Twelfth Church of Christ gathered at Concord: “This town is seated upon a fair fresh river, whose rivulets are filled with fresh marsh, and he... ...s it appeared.” As to their farming he says: “Having laid out their estate upon cattle at 5 to 20 pound a cow, when they came to winter them with inla... ...to 20 pound a cow, when they came to winter them with inland hay, and feed upon such wild fother as was never cut before, they could not hold out the ... ...brown coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son,—the latter a stout and hearty man who had... ...fishing together,—full of incommunicable thoughts, perchance about his own Tyne and Northumberland. He was always to be seen in serene after noons ha... ...nobody else remembers him now, for he soon after died, and migrated to new Tyne streams. His fishing was not a sport, nor solely a means of subsistenc...

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... inspec- tion. This they did; and finding evident tokens of the sick- ness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions publicly that... ...s decreased again, and the city grew healthy , and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over; only that still the burials in St Giles’s ... ...ereof two of the plague and eight of the spot- ted-fever, which was looked upon as the same thing; likewise the number that died of the spotted-fever ... ...sed people of the city: and those were the coasting trade for corn and the Newcastle trade for coals. The first of these was particularly carried on b... ... of vinegar before it was carried. The second trade was that of coals from Newcastle-upon- Tyne, without which the city would have been greatly dis- t... ...re it was carried. The second trade was that of coals from Newcastle-upon- Tyne, without which the city would have been greatly dis- tressed; for not ... ...was still worse was, that they carried it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-T yne, and other places on the coast – where, especially at ...