Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and CustomsHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 188 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... dream but what we see now , a fair and mighty castle , rocks , pre- cipices , mountains of great height . The Prince of Wales was born , according to legend , in Car- narvon Castle , and there investiture ceremon- ies are still held ...
... dream but what we see now , a fair and mighty castle , rocks , pre- cipices , mountains of great height . The Prince of Wales was born , according to legend , in Car- narvon Castle , and there investiture ceremon- ies are still held ...
Pagina 22
... dream ever afterwards of a return to its gray houses , its streams , its hills and heather and wilderness of crags . Ty Isaf and Ty Ucha are the oldest inns of the village . Ty Isaf is at the entrance of the lane leading to the church ...
... dream ever afterwards of a return to its gray houses , its streams , its hills and heather and wilderness of crags . Ty Isaf and Ty Ucha are the oldest inns of the village . Ty Isaf is at the entrance of the lane leading to the church ...
Pagina 36
... dream of an- cient beauty has no place in it for an hour's weariness . As if the riddle of existence could be explained by a wall rain - washed and worn , upon which grow lichen , moss , rustling grass , and even trees , and by lintels ...
... dream of an- cient beauty has no place in it for an hour's weariness . As if the riddle of existence could be explained by a wall rain - washed and worn , upon which grow lichen , moss , rustling grass , and even trees , and by lintels ...
Pagina 37
... dreams upon the castle wasting with the land at its feet , or the " llys " of King Mark , or upon the faint blue rim of some island , holy as the mother of good men . Along the road on one side is the sea ; on the other , green hills ...
... dreams upon the castle wasting with the land at its feet , or the " llys " of King Mark , or upon the faint blue rim of some island , holy as the mother of good men . Along the road on one side is the sea ; on the other , green hills ...
Pagina 106
... Dream of Maxen Wledig , " the dream of Maximus , the tyrant , in the " Mabino- gion , " one of the classics of the world and the classic of Welsh literature . In that dream what did that Roman Emperor see but what we now saw ? " Valleys ...
... Dream of Maxen Wledig , " the dream of Maximus , the tyrant , in the " Mabino- gion , " one of the classics of the world and the classic of Welsh literature . In that dream what did that Roman Emperor see but what we now saw ? " Valleys ...
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Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and Customs Jeannette Augustus Marks Volledige weergave - 1912 |
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Abbey ancient bards barrel vault Beaumaris beauty Beddgelert bell-cot Bettws Bettws-y-Coed Bishop Baldwin born Boswell Branwen called Cambria Carnarvon Castle Celt Celtic cheese choir climbed colour CONWAY CASTLE Denbigh Dinas Emrys Doctor door Dream of Rhonabwy druids Eisteddfod elves English engraving by Cuitt eyes feet Gallant Little Wales gleam goblin gold Gorsedd grave gray Harlech heard heart heather heuen hill hillside hilltop Johnson journey LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN Lady land little churches lived LLANBERIS Llangelynin Llangollen Llanrhychwyn Llanrwst Lledr Llewelyn looking Mabinogion meadow miles mountain never North Wales old print passed past Pen-y-Pass picture Piozzi poetry Prince of Wales Pwllheli river Dee road rocks Roman roof Ruthin Segontium sheep side sing slate Snowdon song stone story summit thing Thrale to-day tour traveller twelfth century Vale valley village voice walls Welsh cottage wind woman words
Populaire passages
Pagina 66 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 58 - Jacobite fellow," overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his strong emphatic voice: "Well, I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning. I'll go and visit the universities abroad. I'll go to France and Italy. I'll go to Padua.— And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads.
Pagina 153 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Pagina 80 - Never heed such nonsense," would be the reply; "a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. Let us, if we DO talk, talk about something; men and women are my subjects of inquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind.
Pagina 67 - Johnson delighted to stand and repeat verses, erected an urn with the following inscription : ' This spot was often dignified by the presence of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Whose moral writings, exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, Gave ardour to Virtue and confidence to Truth.
Pagina 124 - Mabinogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones "not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.
Pagina 55 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand Jme, and would add something to the conversation.
Pagina 57 - He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries; that the mind was enlarged by it, and that an acquisition of dignity of character was derived from it. He expressed a particular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China.
Pagina 137 - And dancing of Fairies In desolate hollows, And wraiths of the mountain, And rolling of dragons By warble of water, Or cataract music Of falling torrents, Flitted The Gleam.
Pagina 56 - Corner to Mile-end Green. But his philosophy stopped at the first turnpike-gate. Of the rural life of England he knew nothing ; and he took it for granted that everybody who lived in the country was either stupid or miserable. "Country gentlemen...