Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and CustomsHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 188 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... King Mark . " Da iawn " ( very good ) , said I emphatically . And her answering smile told me that we understood each other , even if we could not speak each other's language very well . — Changeling Welsh words are begot of elves and ...
... King Mark . " Da iawn " ( very good ) , said I emphatically . And her answering smile told me that we understood each other , even if we could not speak each other's language very well . — Changeling Welsh words are begot of elves and ...
Pagina 15
... King Arthur , their brave Prince Llewelyn , the fate that overtook the hopes and ideals of this prince , their last fight for inde- pendence and their loss of it ; their submission to the yoke of conquerors and the history of English ...
... King Arthur , their brave Prince Llewelyn , the fate that overtook the hopes and ideals of this prince , their last fight for inde- pendence and their loss of it ; their submission to the yoke of conquerors and the history of English ...
Pagina 26
... King John , in the year 1205 , but , the petted possession of two Beddgelert spinsters , was presented by them at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the sagacious David Prichard , the first owner of the Royal Goat Hotel , and ...
... King John , in the year 1205 , but , the petted possession of two Beddgelert spinsters , was presented by them at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the sagacious David Prichard , the first owner of the Royal Goat Hotel , and ...
Pagina 27
... times the abiding place of King Arthur . Merlin's well , on the very summit of Dinas Emrys , is still a discover- able well . There , too , surrounding the crown of this singular hill , are traces and remains of [ 27 ] A Village in Eryri.
... times the abiding place of King Arthur . Merlin's well , on the very summit of Dinas Emrys , is still a discover- able well . There , too , surrounding the crown of this singular hill , are traces and remains of [ 27 ] A Village in Eryri.
Pagina 37
... 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 rise into the blue of the sky , their slopes a mosaic of gray sheep walls . And ...
... 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 rise into the blue of the sky , their slopes a mosaic of gray sheep walls . And ...
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Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and Customs Jeannette Augustus Marks Volledige weergave - 1912 |
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...