Remarks upon North WalesKnott, 1803 - 224 頁 |
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Aberistwith acres ancient Anglesea appears attended Bangor Barmouth Beaumaris beautiful Beddkelart Beuno Beuno's bridge Bwlch Caernarvon Carnedd castle Cerig Cernioge CHAP charming church Conway Corwen Cryb Cwm y Glo delight diameter Dinas DINAS DINLLE distance Druid eight miles elevated English enquiry erected feet high five miles foot four feet Grey ground half hill horses hundred yards inclosed inhabitants Lakes of Llanberris land Llangollen Llanrwst Llewelin Lord Penrhyn Mallwyd Moel mound mountains Nant nearly night observed Old Oswestry Oswestry Owen passed Pennant perhaps plumb-pudding pool priest prince prospect rain ride rise river river Dee river Glaslyn rocks Romans ruin seems shew side smile Snowdon spot stands stile stone stood stranger summit thirty three miles told town Traeth Mawr traveller trench turnpike road twelve vale Vawr Wales walk wall Welch whole William de Breos wood
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第 120 頁 - Thus let me live, unseen, unknown. Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
第 51 頁 - Here the rich and delightful vale of Corwen expands to view, with the Dee in the centre. Here Owen might view near forty square miles of his own land.
第 19 頁 - I stood single. The people eyed me as a phenomenon, with countenances mixed with fear and inquiry. Perhaps they took me for an inspector of taxes ; they could not take me for a window-peeper, for there were scarcely any to peep at, and the few I saw were in that shattered state which proved there was no glazier in the place. Many houses were totally without glass. Ambition here seems wholly excluded. The dress of the inhabitants changes not. It is made for use, not show. That of the softer sex, 1...
第 54 頁 - ... engraved. The principal part of the handle is inlaid with black and yellow wood, banded with silver ; and the shield at the top of the blade a solid piece of the same metal curiously wrought, but not much larger in circumference than a crown piece. The knife and fork are -obliged to be sheathed first, which the shield covers, consequently the dagger must be drawn first.
第 18 頁 - Curiosity led me to count the houses, which were forty-five. • One of these, by far the best, is worth, at a fair rent, perhaps fifty shillings per annum. This, I concluded, must be the parsonage, for who would deny the best to the priest ? but finding there was no church, I understood this mansion was dignified with
第 20 頁 - One of the curiosities I saw was a goat feeding, much at ease, upon the ridge of a house. Perhaps the people within did not fare much better than the goat without. Returning, well pleased with my visit, I remarked to my landlord at...
第 88 頁 - Peggy Evans, who saw ninety-two, Could wrestle, row, fiddle, and hunt a fox too ; Could ring a sweet peal, as the neighbourhood tells, That would charm your two ears — had there been any bells...
第 53 頁 - The principal part of the handle is inlaid with black and yellow wood, banded with silver ; and the shield at the top of the blade, a solid piece of the same metal, curiously wrought, but not much larger in circumference than a crown piece. The knife and fork must necessarily be sheathed first, which the shield covers, consequently the dagger must be drawn first.
第 110 頁 - Of decepiion and conquest, destruction and love. At Aber resided a prince of high state, His moat is yet standing, Llywelyn the Great. In his wars with the English, success- was his doom,* He took a knight prisoner, and kept him at home. A friendship succeeded, companions they were, Whatever the prince eat, the knight had a share ; The captive had beauty, the princess knew this ; She wish'd his embraces, he longed for a kiss. When sentiments harmonize, 'tis but a door. Which quickly will open, and...
第 18 頁 - Mouddy is romantic, singular, and beautiful, upon a small flat made by nature and improved by art, on the declivity of a mountain prodigiously elevated, and nearly perpendicular, on the left descending to the town ; and, on the right, continuing the same steep down to the river Dovy, which washes its foot.