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الصفحة 39
... reached Denbigh yesterday evening . This town is well built , This delightful vale is of an oval shape , twenty - fix miles in length , and about eight wide in the broadest part ; it is wholly bounded with high hills , excepting towards ...
... reached Denbigh yesterday evening . This town is well built , This delightful vale is of an oval shape , twenty - fix miles in length , and about eight wide in the broadest part ; it is wholly bounded with high hills , excepting towards ...
الصفحة 88
... reached Caernarvon , or Caer - ar - fon ( fignifying a walled town ) , to breakfast ; and it was not until I had eaten , or rather devoured , a certain quantity of toast and butter , that I began to recover the accustomed tone of my ...
... reached Caernarvon , or Caer - ar - fon ( fignifying a walled town ) , to breakfast ; and it was not until I had eaten , or rather devoured , a certain quantity of toast and butter , that I began to recover the accustomed tone of my ...
الصفحة 93
... reached our inn I had loft my voice , and gained a fore - throat ; the following morn- ing it was no better ; but under fome hope that exercise would cure the com- plaint , was induced to continue our tour to Bethkelert , which we reached ...
... reached our inn I had loft my voice , and gained a fore - throat ; the following morn- ing it was no better ; but under fome hope that exercise would cure the com- plaint , was induced to continue our tour to Bethkelert , which we reached ...
الصفحة 103
Joseph Hucks. with shaggy rocks , without the slightest veftiges of verdure . We reached this place yesterday evening : I am delighted with the fituation , which is the most retired and pleafing I have ever seen ; it stands upon the ...
Joseph Hucks. with shaggy rocks , without the slightest veftiges of verdure . We reached this place yesterday evening : I am delighted with the fituation , which is the most retired and pleafing I have ever seen ; it stands upon the ...
الصفحة 109
... reached Harlech ; for the first time heartily fatigued . The country people have no idea that a stranger can be ignorant of their roads ; we have not unfrequently asked the way , and received for answer , straight as we could go ...
... reached Harlech ; for the first time heartily fatigued . The country people have no idea that a stranger can be ignorant of their roads ; we have not unfrequently asked the way , and received for answer , straight as we could go ...
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Abber affume almoſt alſo Amlwch amongſt Angleſea annum appearance Bala Beaumaris beautiful becauſe beſt Cader Idris Caernarvon caftle caſtle caufe cauſe circumftances cloſe confequently confiderably courfe courſe Crickhowel croffed dear friend defolation Denbigh deſcription diſtance Ditto Druids eſtabliſh exiſtence facred fafe fame fcarcely feemed ferry fhall fide fimilar fimple firſt fituation fociety fome fometimes foon fubject fuch fummit fuperftition furrounding happineſs himſelf houſe inhabitants intereſting iſland itſelf juſtice laft laſt Llanberis Llangollen meaſure ments miles mind moft Montgomeryshire moſt moun mountains muft muſt myſelf North Wales obfervations occafion ourſelves paffage paſs peaſant pleaſing pleaſure prefent reaſon reſpect rifing river river Clwyd River Dee road rock Ruthin ſcene ſcenery ſeen ſhall ſhort ſhould ſmall ſome South Wales ſpot ſtands ſtate ſtones ſtood ſtorm ſtranger ſtriking tain thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion town ufual utmoſt vale venerable Welſh whilft whofe wiſhes Wrexham yeſterday
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الصفحة 8 - Oh. how can'st thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her vot'ry yields? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even ; All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven — Oh, how can'st thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven...
الصفحة 134 - BUT poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in fo cold a foil, and fo fevere a climate, foon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
الصفحة 134 - In some places, one half the children born die before they are four years of age, in many places before they are seven, and in almost all places before they are nine or ten. This great mortality, however, will...
الصفحة 38 - ... a very high hill, when the vale of Clwyd, in all its beauty, unfolded upon the sight: it appeared like a moving picture, upon which nature had been prodigal of its colours. Hamlets, villages, towns, and castles, rose like enchantment upon this rich carpet, that seemed covered with wood and enclosures; in the midst of it, at the...
الصفحة 127 - ... threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ; and if fo, whether an age of barbarity, with honefty and virtue, or an age of refinement, with effeminacy, vice, and...
الصفحة 12 - ... we can discern no quality which marks any distinction or superiority. The capacity of improvement seems to be the same ; and the talents he may afterwards acquire...
الصفحة 127 - Jpoils of a vanquifhed enemy ; the conch does not found to war, nor is the bolfy (hield itruck as the fignal to meet the threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement ; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ;...
الصفحة 1 - With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow ; If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise ; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. Then grieve not, thou, to whom th...
الصفحة 16 - neath this roof thy wine cheer'd moments pafs, Fill to the good man's name one grateful glafs, To higher zeft mall mem'ry wake thy foul, And virtue mingle in the ennobled bowl. But if like me thro...
الصفحة 16 - Viiions fair, His eyes dance rapture, and his bofom glows ! Friend to the friendlefs, to the fick man Health ; With generous Joy he views th...