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43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This William Fleming resided at Coniston Hall, which he enlarged and repaired, as some of the carving, bearing the date and initial letters of his and his lady's name, plainly shows; he died about 40 Elizabeth (1598), and was buried in Grasmere Church. The said William Fleming w... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Hugh Hird, the chief of them, flourished in this period.) Girt Will is represented as carrying off"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "bowermaiden, and being caught and killed at Caldron Dub on Yewdale Beck (a little above the sawmills), where his grave was shown, still ... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with a barrel not under three feet in length, and a bore for twelve bullets to the pound, with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Sir Daniel was sometimes there, and speaking of one visit, he says (December 14th, 1680),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir Charles Dalton"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and on Christmas Day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was not only at Christmas that they indulged in venison. On July 11th, 1660 (King Charles had just come home, so cavaliers could feast), George Fleming brought two deer from Coniston to Rydal, and got 2s.; and o... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at Coniston otherwise Thurston Water and so by the Eastern bank of Yewdale Beck up the same on to the low end of the close called the Stubbing and so upwards round the said close by the hedge that parts it from Waters Head Grounds into Yewdale Beck, and so up Yewdale B... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was consecrated and made parochial by Bishop Chaderton; the original dedication is not known. In 1650 the Parliamentary enquiry shows that there was no maintenance but the £1 19s. 10d. which the people raised for their"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir Richard Ro... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The church of Coniston, which occupies a position central to the village, is a chapel of ease under Ulverston, with a stipend of £146, recently augmented, derived from land, houses, bounty, dividends and fees. It was rebuilt in 1819 on the site of an older edifice. The only part... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "church, now the"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Modern Painters; the Lion of St. Mark, for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stones of Venice, and the candlestick of the Tabernacle for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seven Lamps. On the west face below is the parable of the labourers in the vineyard--"
... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruskin and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coniston."
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brethren,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Recent operations have from time to time disclosed old workings which have obviously been made at a very early period, by the primitive method of lighting great fires upon the veins containing ore and, when sufficiently heated, pouring cold water upon the rock, and so, by the su... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Governors, Assistants, and Commonalty of the Mines Royal"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and on March 22nd,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This turned out a disappointment, for on May 2nd, 1665, he says,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For many years their shipments averaged 300 tons per month, and employed from five to six hundred people, but"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ravings and Ramblings"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moor-gill (above Sunny-bank) West side. Harrison Coppice (opposite Fir Island)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Springs (opposite Beck-leven)"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ouregrave in _Domesday_, which must be identical with Orgrave. At this place, early in the thirteenth century, Roger of Orgrave gave Furness Abbey the mine"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Langdale & Cunningston mountains do abound most with iron veins; which supplies with Ore & keeps constantly going a Furnace in Langdale, where great plenty of good and malleable iron is made, not much inferior to that of Dantzick."
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were in the Coniston Fells; the slate was shipped from Penny Bridge"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In 1780, Green saw the quarry near the top of the Old Man"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W. Rigge & Son of Hawkshead, who worked some of them, exported 1,... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cowpers and Turners, with makyng of Coles,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As Survey'd by Wm. Brasier 1745, in which are marked Coniston Kirk, Hall, Waterhead, Townend, Thurston Water, Piel I., Nibthwaite, Furnace, Nibthwaite Grange, Blawith Chap., Waterycot (by obvious error for"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The village of Coniston consists of scattered houses; many of them have a most romantic appearance owing to the ground they stand on being extremely steep. Later editions add:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some are snow white, others grey ... they are all neatly c... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our old Waterhead Inn, where I was so happy playing in the boats, _exists_ no more."
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forness, _Spedding_ for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pedder, and _Coniston_ for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Odinsmere, as the writer certainly intended, becomes a very vivid and interesting picture of Coniston folk and their surroundings at the beg... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Utree,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gothic"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Modern Painters, _ and through the correspondence of Ruskin with Miss Mary and Miss Susanna published as _Hortus Inclusus_. In his preface to the last he spoke of them as"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In 1822 a view of the modern"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gothic"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God and the People"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cumberland, he said. In 1847, already a well-known author, he was looking out for a house in the Lake District, and staying at Ambleside. But the March weather was dull, and he had many causes for depression. As he rowed on Windermere he pined for the light and colour of souther... |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only I could lie down beneath the crags of Coniston!"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allans,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beck, brook, burn,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Currock,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feet, fit,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grounds,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hause,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kirk Sinkings,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man, maen,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parrocks, parks,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thwaite,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whittlegate,"
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SUN HOTEL, CONISTON, LANCS."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "SUN HOTEL, CONISTON, R.S.O., LANCS."
}
] |
43968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Automobile Club"
}
] |
230182 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Happy Family"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, said his father, taking down the odious book."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let you and me have a little go-in at _Horace_."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With an infusion of nitre the vines are equal to Cyclops"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STARE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "LADY GODIVA."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear TOMMY, although you have not yet mastered the amusing puns which I made in my recent discourse, you can, it may be, tell me why MISS SHERIDAN resembles a pony?"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your determination, MASTER TOMMY, replied his young friend,"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've seen it! I've seen it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What have you seen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Sir, answered TOMMY,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a mind to discover, before I went to bed, what you meant by your two... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow, said MR. BARLOW quietly to himself as he returned to his bed--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-morrow we will talk over these things."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHIT'S THE MATTER, GUIDMAN?--ONYTHING WRANG?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "LET US JUST CONSUDER THE RECENT CIRCUMSTANCES. WAS OOR JOHN IN THE GIG WHEN WE STARTET FRAE ARDRISHAIG?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OOR JOHN"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Guild of Ladies is proposed to be formed to promote modesty of dress to do away with extravagance, and substitute the neatness and sobriety suitable to Christian women."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A movement has been started to establish a hospital in London 'for the treatment of diseases apart from the ordinary administration of alcoholic liquors.'"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MISS BROWN. RECITATION,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MASTER JONES. SONG,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MRS. ROBINSON. RECITAL (in costume),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MR. SMITH. READING,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RE... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is within my knowledge that at one of the chief public schools--and I am told that the same rule holds good at the other schools of this class--a boy who does not bring back £5 each half is set down by 'the house' as a 'duffer' and as of 'no use.' In other words, he is under ... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not every lad that can bear lightly the gibes and jeers of the young cotton lords whose home ethics teach them to measure the quality of a gentleman by the amount of money he can spend. The result is inevitable. The 'soc' shop gives credit. A loan is soon and easily contra... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TICHBORNE, SIR ROGER C. D., _Bart._, 10, Harley Road West, Brompton, S.W."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ANOTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENT.--The working-men of the West End have set on foot a new social movement, the main object of which is to enable them to hold meetings with their trade and friendly societies away from public-houses. A body of earnest working-men have been exerting themsel... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Presents for Christmas. This appears amid a lot of walking-sticks, where it is somewhat suggestive. Perhaps too many schoolboys generally come home for the holidays would receive the most suitable Christmas-box a fond Father could present them with if he were to give them the St... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enough to sign, he sighs,"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not mine! of their phantom-head, Echoing their"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not mine."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PHANTOM BOARD."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "GHOSTS, BY JINGO!"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pies and Puddings, which has caused such a stir in literary and culinary circles, bears strong internal evidence of the practised pen of PROFESSOR PORRINGER. That on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Extraordinary Ebullitions,"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winds and Windfalls,"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sheridan"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parliament Oak in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Merry Sherwood."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NO, CHARLES--NEVER! I HAVE LONG DETERMINED TO DEVOTE MY LIFE TO CHARITY; IN FACT, TO BECOME A SISTER IN AN ANGLICAN NUNNERY."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WELL, IF YOU DO, I'LL BURY MYSELF FOR THE REST OF MY MISERABLE DAYS IN A--IN A--A MONKERY!"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That postage-stamp is thrown away!"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A communication was received from the guardians of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, stating that there was an increase in the number of inquests held upon the bodies of persons dying in the workhouse, and that a majority of them were unnecessary; but the guardians were pow... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The QUEEN has been pleased to send a present of game for the patients of the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Foreigner!"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Thankoffering from India,"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHEW'S BEER DO YOU LIKE BEST--THIS 'ERE HOM'BREWED O' FISK'S, OR THAT THERE ALE THEY GIVES YER AT THE WHITE HO'S'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WELL, O' THE TEW I PREFERS THIS 'ERE. THAT THERE O' WUM'OODS'S DON'T FARE TO ME TO TASTE O' NAWTHUN AT ALL. NOW THIS 'ERE... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murder of Wife-killing, and create a special term for that offence--if offence it can be called. May we suggest either"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wife-icide, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spousi-cide, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sarved her right."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "8 | Rain rlg_h_t off on day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "10 | Heag rain swig right."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Phantom Board."
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beware of widows, _Sammy!_"
}
] |
38786 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evenings From Home, and the formatting and spelling of the table under"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "State of the Weather in Naples from the 6th to the 12th Jan. 1872"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 'Phantom Board'. was moved to page 48 so that the ... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alton of Somasco,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Cattle-Baron's Daughter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Dust of Conflict,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Winston of the Prairie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Jacint... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was afraid you would never come,"
}
] |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why did you think I would come this way at all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, said Ingleby, with a trace of confusion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, there wasn't any reason. Still, I hoped you would. That was why I waited."
... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As it happened, I was almost going round by the road, with Lilian Fownes,"
}
] |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I should not have seen you--and I especially wanted to,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In that case, why did you run away as soon as the game was over?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you know? and Ingleby's laugh had a trace of bitterness in ... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, in a non-committal fashion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps I am, but it isn't so very astonishing that I should occasionally resent a slight that isn't meant when there are so many of them that certainly are. No doubt, it's my own fault. I sho... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if you have deliberately made up your mind to offend me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know I would cut my hand off sooner than do anything I thought would vex you, Ingleby answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid I talk too muc... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said, with a little gleam in her eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really think I, at least, have listened to you with patience; but your views are likely to lead you into trouble. Where did you get them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid you are an inveterate radical,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I scarcely think that goes quite far enough, as radicalism seems to be understood by its acknowledged leaders. Blatant is the adjective usually hurled at us; and no doubt I deserve it, as witne... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going?"
}
] |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out there where men are equal, as they were made to be, and the new lands are too wide for the cramped opinions and prejudices that crush one here! Then he turned to the girl with a little laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you would say something quietly s... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder, she said,"
}
] |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think I could make you understand how sordid and distasteful my life here is--and it can't be changed, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every door is closed against the man with neither friends nor money. He must be taught his place, and stay in it, dr... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that was wrong you will have a long while in which to forgive me, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I live and prosper out there I will bring you back the glove again--and, whatever happens, you cannot prevent my carrying your memory away with me."
}
] |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The little excursion doesn't seem to commend itself to you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, answered Ingleby drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't say it does. I had looked forward to spending a quiet day on the moors to-morrow. It will in al... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can remember occasions when it seemed to please you to fly in the face of them, but your thoroughness isn't altogether above suspicion now and then. One has to be one thing or the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know my opinions."
},
{
"from": "hu... |
38635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the best it is a poor one, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One feels inclined to wonder if--this--is to last forever."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's too big a question. Give it up, and come out with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
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