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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Lancashire SketchesIN this little volume, relating, principally, to a district With Which the writer is intimately acquainted, he has gathered up a few points of local interest, and, in connection With these, he has endeavoured to embody something of the traits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important...

Excerpt from Tufts of HeatherHere he suddenly leaped down from the hedge-side, and seating himself upon the bank, he began to look at his hand, into which a great thorn had penetrated, and, as he examined the bleeding finger, he kept quietly repeating the last line, Good government is o'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Poems and SongsIf this be a true statement of the nature of dialects it will be clear that there can be no reason why they should not be used for the purposes of poetry. At least three poets of eminence have indeed so used them - Spenser, Burns, and Tennyson. Spenser's Slzep/zearrl's Calender, his first work of moment, and that which led to his recognition by his contemporaries as a true poet, was written in a Northern dialect. No...

Excerpt from Poems and Lancashire SongsIII. In the gloaming grey, at close of day, Beneath the deepening blue, It lifted up its little cup, To catch the evening dew The rippling fall, the moorfowl's call, The wandering night-wind's moan It heard, it felt, it loved them all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important ...

Excerpt from The Chimney CornerTwo of the stories The Nomination and The Swallowed Sixpence - have been often separately printed, and have been much used for public reading, but the finest piece in the volume is the one entitled, A Berrin' Posy, which gives an inimitable picture of the sufferings of the honest poor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comT...

Excerpt from Rambles and ReveriesIt was seven O'clock on a lovely Sunday morning when: I left Manchester. The streets Of the city were sleeping in noiseless repose, and a spell of quiet pleasure lay on all the late excited scene, as we rode through East Lancashire and across the West Riding ofyorkshire - that picturesque land of hill and dale - so much changed since the days when Robin Hood and his merry men roved its gay greenwoods and forest...

Excerpt from Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton FamineThe following chapters are reprinted from the columns of the Manchester Examiner and Times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pres...

Excerpt from Poems and Lancashire SongsO'erfrowns the mountain side, Stem monarch of the solitude, Dark-heaving, wild, and wide, A ¿oweret of the moorland hill Peeped out unto the sky.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct...

Excerpt from Sketches of Lancashire Life and LocalitiesCare, as fully and clearly as possible, in the course of the work. Some of this historical matter may prove to be ill-chosen, if not.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from Sketches of Lancashire Life and LocalitiesCare, as fully and clearly as possible, in the course of the work. Some of this historical matter may prove to be ill-chosen, if not.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from Over Sands to the LakesEarly in the month Of May I found myself, one fine evening, walking about the platform Of Carnforth Station, waiting for the train to Ulverstone. It was that delightful time' of day when the birds were beginning to get stiller, and might be heard more distinctly than before, singing their little nestward solos with drowsy delight, here and there among the trees. The train started, and for the first time I wa...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about English Poetry have a long history, beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry, through the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan period of William Shakespeare, followed by The Romantic Movement, Scottish Romanticism, and the Welsh Renaissance. Titles include: A London plane-tree, and other verse, A selection from the love poetry of William Butler Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678, Tercentenary Tributes, Ballads fro...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Excerpt from Rambles and ReveriesIt was seven O'clock on a lovely Sunday morning when: I left Manchester. The streets Of the city were sleeping in noiseless repose, and a spell of quiet pleasure lay on all the late excited scene, as we rode through East Lancashire and across the West Riding ofyorkshire - that picturesque land of hill and dale - so much changed since the days when Robin Hood and his merry men roved its gay greenwoods and forest...

Excerpt from Poems and Lancashire SongsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original...