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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... seen them , pre- pared for the press ; and the Author has thought proper to avail himself of a few observations of others , to correct or illustrate his own ; here he ac- knowledges himself obliged to the ingenious Aikin , and the ...
... seen them , pre- pared for the press ; and the Author has thought proper to avail himself of a few observations of others , to correct or illustrate his own ; here he ac- knowledges himself obliged to the ingenious Aikin , and the ...
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... seen from an elevation near the mansion - brief history of the rise , duration and fall of Lord Marcher's - encomium on the Welsh .... 309 LETTER XIII . Persons of the Welsh described ; dress , food , character - Pleasing anecdote of ...
... seen from an elevation near the mansion - brief history of the rise , duration and fall of Lord Marcher's - encomium on the Welsh .... 309 LETTER XIII . Persons of the Welsh described ; dress , food , character - Pleasing anecdote of ...
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... seen in different places interrupted by the meadows , heightens the pleasing scene . The distant views are peculiarly fine , the Wrekin , like a sugar loaf , rising solitary in the Plain of Salop ; the extensive chain of the Freidden ...
... seen in different places interrupted by the meadows , heightens the pleasing scene . The distant views are peculiarly fine , the Wrekin , like a sugar loaf , rising solitary in the Plain of Salop ; the extensive chain of the Freidden ...
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... seen , and we shall soon be summoned to behold ! The gay and dissipated may cast a sneer , and the philosophically morose may heave a sigh over the prevalence of this antiquated , and as they may term it , superstitious custom ; but to ...
... seen , and we shall soon be summoned to behold ! The gay and dissipated may cast a sneer , and the philosophically morose may heave a sigh over the prevalence of this antiquated , and as they may term it , superstitious custom ; but to ...
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... seen in the vale , are only Winter habitations , covered with the ancient British roofing Peithwydden , or Shingles , i . e . oak cut into lengths and split . The hills abound with slate of a coarse brownish kind , proper for this ...
... seen in the vale , are only Winter habitations , covered with the ancient British roofing Peithwydden , or Shingles , i . e . oak cut into lengths and split . The hills abound with slate of a coarse brownish kind , proper for this ...
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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.