Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and CustomsHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 188 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... looking across the wide flat marsh at its feet and over the sea toward the palace of 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 ...
... looking across the wide flat marsh at its feet and over the sea toward the palace of 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 ...
Pagina 12
... looking at me in petition to help him re- call the days that had slipped so far away . He asked me about friends of his , - people who had died before I had thought of being born . He corrected my few words of Welsh , a ghost of a smile ...
... looking at me in petition to help him re- call the days that had slipped so far away . He asked me about friends of his , - people who had died before I had thought of being born . He corrected my few words of Welsh , a ghost of a smile ...
Pagina 37
... looking like sleepy eyes out of the hud- dled graves . One minute time rolls like a char- iot wheel crushing all things , another moment and it is a mystic circle without beginning and without end . The graves upon the hillsides , young ...
... looking like sleepy eyes out of the hud- dled graves . One minute time rolls like a char- iot wheel crushing all things , another moment and it is a mystic circle without beginning and without end . The graves upon the hillsides , young ...
Pagina 67
... looking at rough cascades ! " It would be difficult to make a summary of all the objects Johnson called " mean " in North Wales . Among them were towns , rivers , inns , dinners , churches , houses , choirs . It is safe to say that the ...
... looking at rough cascades ! " It would be difficult to make a summary of all the objects Johnson called " mean " in North Wales . Among them were towns , rivers , inns , dinners , churches , houses , choirs . It is safe to say that the ...
Pagina 79
... looking for a Griffiths or a Jones in Wales , even a particular Jones or Griffiths , is like looking for a needle in a haystack . Perhaps the present limitation to a dozen patronymics is a blessing for courts of law , but it is baffling ...
... looking for a Griffiths or a Jones in Wales , even a particular Jones or Griffiths , is like looking for a needle in a haystack . Perhaps the present limitation to a dozen patronymics is a blessing for courts of law , but it is baffling ...
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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...