A Prospect of Manchester and its Neighbourhood, from Chamber, upon the Rising Grounds, Adjacent to the Great Northern Road: A Poem

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A Prospect of Manchester and its Neighbourhood, from Chamber, upon the Rising Grounds, Adjacent to the Great Northern Road: A Poem (1813)
by Kinder Wood
4036174A Prospect of Manchester and its Neighbourhood, from Chamber, upon the Rising Grounds, Adjacent to the Great Northern Road: A Poem1813Kinder Wood

A PROSPECT

OF

MANCHESTER

AND ITS

NEIGHBOURHOOD,

FROM

Chamber,

UPON THE RISING GROUNDS,

ADJACENT TO THE

Great Northern Road:

A POEM.



Fuge quo descendere gestis:
Non erit emisso reditus tibi. Quid miser egi?
Quid volui?
Horat. Epist.



Breathes there the man, with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go mark him well,
For him no minstrel raptures swell.
Scott's Lay of the last Minstrel.



Manchester:

PRINTED BY R. & W. DEAN, MARKET-STREET


1813.

TO

Mr. JOHN JAMES FLETCHER,

OF LONDON,

THIS POEM IS DEDICATED,

AS A TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM

FOR HIS TALENTS AND FRIENDSHIP,

AND AS A TESTIMONY

OF THE PLEASURABLE SENSATIONS

FELT UPON LOOKING BACK,

TO THE NUMBERLESS

HAPPY AND PROFITABLE HOURS,

SPENT

IN HIS CONVERSATION AND SOCIETY,

BY HIS MOST SINCERE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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