First (second) geographical reader, Volumen3 |
Términos y frases comunes
agricultural Avon bank basin Brecknock Bristol Channel called Cardigan Cardigan Bay Carnarvon castle Central Plain centre Cheshire Chiltern Hills coal coal-field coast of England coast-line Coast.-PART Cornwall Cotswolds cotton county town Cumberland Cumbrian Derwent distance district drains East Anglian Heights east coast eastern England England run English Channel estuary famous feet Firth flows Foreland forms ground harbours Humber important Irish Sea island Isle Kent kingdom Lancashire land large number Leicester LESSON lies Lincoln Heights Liverpool London lying manufacture Mersey Middlesex miles Morecambe Bay mountains mouth North Sea Northampton northern Northumberland Ouse Pennine Range Plymouth population port portion Portland Bill principal railway range of hills Ribble rises rivers of England separated Severn shire side slope Solway Firth south coast south-west southern Stour streams Tees Thames trade Trent tributaries Tyne valley Wales Warwickshire Wash watering-place watershed of England west coast western Westmoreland whole Wolds Yorkshire Yorkshire Wolds
Pasajes populares
Página 110 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 32 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide! And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine: There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 20 - The tide did now its floodmark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain: For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace.
Página 8 - Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
Página 89 - On every side, and far as the eye could see into the heavy distance, tall chimneys, crowding on each other, and presenting that endless repetition of the same dull, ugly, form, which is the horror of oppressive dreams, poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air.
Página 72 - The hapless river — a pretty enough stream a few miles up, with trees overhanging its banks and fringes of green sedge set thick along its edges — loses caste as it gets among the mills and print works. There are myriads of dirty things given it to wash, and whole wagonloads of poisons from dye houses and bleachyards thrown into it to carry away...
Página 72 - ... river in flood, or as that of a water-spout just broken amid the hills, and at once hurrying adown a hundred different ravines. But the outburst is short as fierce. We have stepped aside into some door-way, or out towards the centre of some public square, to be beyond the wind of such commotion ; and in a few minutes all is over, and the streets even more quiet and solitary than before. There is an air of much magnificence about the public buildings devoted to trade ; and the larger shops wear...
Página 104 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Página 69 - ... required to spin a single thread, — the thread spun by the jenny could not be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp.
Página 1 - The size and shape of the world. Geographical terms simply explained, and illustrated by reference to the map of England. Physical geography of hills and rivers. Standard III. — Physical and political geography of England, with special knowledge of the district in which the school is situated.