Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and CustomsHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 188 pagina's |
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abbey ancient bards barrel vault Beaumaris beauty Beddgelert bell-cot Bettws Bettws-y-Coed born Branwen called Carnarvon Castle Celt century cheese choir colour CONWAY CASTLE Cymru Denbigh Dinas Emrys Doctor Dolbadarn door Dream of Rhonabwy druids Eisteddfod English engraving by Cuitt eyes feet Gallant Little Wales gleam gold golden Gorsedd grave gray Harlech heard heart heather heuen hill hillside hilltop Johnson journey LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN Lady land legend little churches lived LLANBERIS Llangelynin Llangollen Llanrhychwyn Llanrwst Lledr Llewelyn Llewenni looking Mabinogion Maxen Wledig meadow miles mountain never North Wales old print old town passed past Pen-y-Pass picture Piozzi poetry Prince of Wales river river Dee road rocks Roman roof Ruthin saints Segontium sheep sing slate Snowdon song stone story summit thing Thrale to-day tour travelling Vale valley village walls Welsh cottage Welsh fairies 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 98 - Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches' mummy : maw, and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark; Root of hemlock, digg'd i...
Pagina 160 - 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 57 - 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 me, and would add something to the conversation.
Pagina 59 - 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. I catched it...
Pagina 69 - 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 58 - ... to emancipate the mind from the prejudices of a particular age or a particular nation. Of foreign travel and of history he spoke with the fierce and boisterous contempt of ignorance. " What does a man learn by travelling? Is Beauclerk the better for travelling? What did Lord Charlemont learn in his travels, except that there was a snake in one of the pyramids of Egypt?
Pagina 66 - 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 59 - by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence. There would be a lustre reflected upon them from your spirit and curiosity. They would be at all times regarded as the children of a man who had gone to view the wall of China. I am serious, Sir.
Pagina 60 - 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.