Letters Written During a Tour Through North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at Other Times: Containing Views of the History, Antiquities, and Customs of that Part of the Principality, and Interpersed with Observations on Its Scenery, Agriculture, Botany, Mineralogy, Trade and ManufacturesC. and R. Baldwin, 1804 - 415 páginas |
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... inhabitants , form so great a con- trast , without taking some notice of its peculiarities . If it should be objected as derogatory to the dignity of a writer , that , in the course of this little Work , too much attention has been paid ...
... inhabitants , form so great a con- trast , without taking some notice of its peculiarities . If it should be objected as derogatory to the dignity of a writer , that , in the course of this little Work , too much attention has been paid ...
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... inhabitants - Reflections on female education - Advantages and disadvantages of canals- Powis Castle ; its delightful terrace - Views - Llanfair - Virnwy , Amnis Piscosus - Mode of spearing fish - Pleasing custom of planting the graves ...
... inhabitants - Reflections on female education - Advantages and disadvantages of canals- Powis Castle ; its delightful terrace - Views - Llanfair - Virnwy , Amnis Piscosus - Mode of spearing fish - Pleasing custom of planting the graves ...
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... inhabitants - Mallwyd , recluse yet picturesque situation - Church strewed with rushes - Remarkable situation of the altar - Reflections on bigotry Large yews in the church- yard - Conjectures on the reason for their being planted in ...
... inhabitants - Mallwyd , recluse yet picturesque situation - Church strewed with rushes - Remarkable situation of the altar - Reflections on bigotry Large yews in the church- yard - Conjectures on the reason for their being planted in ...
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... Inhabitants of this district remarked for longevity - Llanberis copper mine - Height of Snowdon- Mountains in its vicinity - Slate mines - Origin of the name-- Account that snow does not melt for years confuted - Most eligible ascents ...
... Inhabitants of this district remarked for longevity - Llanberis copper mine - Height of Snowdon- Mountains in its vicinity - Slate mines - Origin of the name-- Account that snow does not melt for years confuted - Most eligible ascents ...
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... inhabitants .... LETTER IX . 177 Delightful ride from Caernarvon to Bangor - Beautiful appearance of the Menai - Bangor ; its description - Gross error of the Author of A Walk Through Wales in taking this for Bangor Iscoed in Flintshire ...
... inhabitants .... LETTER IX . 177 Delightful ride from Caernarvon to Bangor - Beautiful appearance of the Menai - Bangor ; its description - Gross error of the Author of A Walk Through Wales in taking this for Bangor Iscoed in Flintshire ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abbey abound alpine ancient animal appearance arches Bangor Bards Barmouth beautiful beneath bridge built Bwlch Cader Cader Idris Caernarvon called Cardigan castle Chirk church conjecture considerable considered Conway Corwen custom dark Dinas distance Dovey elegant England English erected Estrildis favour feet fish formed frequently furnished Garfa Glyndwr ground Gyraldus hill inhabitants King lake land Llan Llanberis Llanrwst Llewelyn Llyn LOBELIA DORTMANNA Locrine lofty Lord Lordship Mallwyd Mawddach Merioneth miles Moel Montgomery moun mountains nature neighbours North Wales observation obtained Owen pass peat Pennant plants Poole possessed Powis present Prince principal probably remains RHODIOLA ROSEA rising river road rock rocky Roger de Montgomery Roman ruins Saxifraga NIVALIS scenery scenes scite Severn side situation slate Snowdon spirit steep stone stream summit supposed tains tide tion town vale variety vegetable vicinity village walls Welsh woods
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Página 317 - Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Thro...
Página 282 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 24 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Página 317 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Página 401 - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd, for a certain term, to walk the night ; And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burn'd and purg'd away.
Página 163 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Página 163 - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way, And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed...
Página 18 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página iii - O Nature, how in every charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim, To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I 'scaped the wrangling Crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus...
Página 249 - No more its arches echo to the noise Of joy and festive mirth. No more the glance Of blazing taper through its windows beams, And quivers on the undulating wave : But naked stand the melancholy walls, Lash'd by the wintry tempests, cold and bleak, That whistle mournful thro' the empty halls, And piece-meal crumble down the tow'rs to dust.