Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of Its People, Places and CustomsHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 188 páginas |
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Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customs Jeannette Augustus Marks Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
Términos y frases comunes
abbey ancient bards barrel vault Beaumaris beauty Beddgelert bell-cot Bettws Bettws-y-Coed 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 Gorsedd grave gray Harlech heard heart heather heuen hill hillside hilltop Johnson journey LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN Lady land LENOX AND TILDEN little churches lived LLANBERIS Llangelynin Llangollen Llanrhychwyn Lledr Llewelyn Llewenni looking Mabinogion Maxen Wledig meadow miles mountain never North Wales old print passed past Pen-y-Pass picture Piozzi poetry Prince of Wales PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Pwllheli river river Dee road rocks Roman roof Ruthin Segontium sheep sing slate Snowdon song stone story summit thing Thrale TILDEN FOUNDATIONS to-day tour travelling Vale valley village walls Welsh cottage wind woman words
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Página 115 - 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.
Página 117 - ... swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the de-w of June is at the heaviest.
Página 59 - 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.
Página 61 - 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.
Página 62 - 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.
Página 115 - I came to the fairest valley in the world, wherein were trees of equal growth; and a river ran through the valley, and a path was by the side of the river. And I followed the path until mid-day, and continued my journey along the remainder of the valley until the evening; and at the extremity of a plain I came to a large and lustrous Castle, at the foot of which was a torrent.
Página 60 - 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...
Página 73 - God! Thy protection ; And in protection, strength ; And in strength, understanding; And in understanding, knowledge; And in knowledge...
Página 88 - 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.
Página 61 - He expressed a particular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China. I catched it for the moment, and said I really believed I should go and see the wall of China had I not children, of whom it was my duty to take care. " Sir, (said he,) by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence.