Panorama of the Beauties, Curiosities and Antiquities of North Wales ...R. Groombridge, 1844 - 333 sider |
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Panorama of the Beauties, Curiosities, and Antiquities of North Wales Joseph Hemingway Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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Abergele affords ancient Anglesey appearance arch Asaph ascent Bala Bangor bank Beaumaris beautiful Bedd-gelert bridge building built Cader Idris Caernarvon Caernarvonshire Caerwys called Capel Curig castle cataract celebrated chapel Chester church Clwyd Conway Corwen dedicated to St Denbigh DENBIGHSHIRE Dinas distance Dôlgellau Edward elegant eminence English erected extensive feet Ffestiniog FLINTSHIRE formerly ground handsome height hill Holyhead Holywell hundred inhabitants lake late Liverpool Llan Llanberis Llangollen Llanidloes Llanrwst Llyn lofty London Lord Machynlleth mansion Mawr Menai Menai Bridge Merionethshire Mostyn mountains neighbourhood North Wales numerous parish passed Pennant Penrhyn picturesque present Prince principal Pwllheli quarries remains residence Rhuddlan river road rock Roman Ruthin scene scenery seat Shrewsbury side situated slate Snowdon spacious station stone summit tourist tower town traveller vale Vale of Clwyd valley village walls Welsh Welsh language wood Wrexham yards
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Side 208 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 117 - Whose song, sublimely sweet, serenely gay, Amus'd my childhood, and inform'd my youth. O let your spirit still my bosom soothe, Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide ; Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth, For well I know wherever ye reside, There harmony, and peace, and innocence abide.
Side 14 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Side 14 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Side 20 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Side 61 - ... rubbish; the noise of picking the ore from the rock, and of hammering the wadding when it was about to be blasted; with, at intervals, the roar of the blasts in distant parts of the mine, altogether excited the most sublime ideas, intermixed, however, with sensations of terror. " I left this situation, and followed the road that leads into the mine; and the moment I entered, m^astonishment was again excited.
Side 281 - Ah ! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love...
Side 175 - And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps. So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Side 152 - 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.
Side 149 - He was governor of Denbigh Castle in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.