WITH PREFACE
BY
PROFESSOR JOSEPH WRIGHT, M.A., Ph.D.
OXFORD.
KENDAL:
PRINTED BY T. WILSON, HIGHGATE.
1898.
PRICE 2/6.
“Whate’er of good the old time had was living still.”
_Whittier._
_TO THE WANDERING SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF THE LAKE COUNTRY,
AND WHO, WHEREVER THEY ARE,
STILL HARBOUR A LOVE FOR THE SOUND OF
“T’ AULD TWANG,”
THIS COLLECTION IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED._
“Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none;
* * * * *
This fond attachment to the well known place,
Whence first we started into life’s long race,
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
We feel it even in age, and at our latest day.”
_Cowper._
“In the power of saying rude truths, sometimes in the lion’s mouth, no
men surpass them.”
“The more hearty and sturdy expression may indicate that the savageness
of the Norsemen was not all gone.”
_Emerson: National Traits._
“That man speaks
Is nature’s prompting, whether thus or thus
She leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—_Dante._
(Quoted from _Farrar’s Chapters on Language_.)