The Cambrian directory, or, Cursory sketches of the Welsh territories, with a chart1800 - 80 頁 |
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admiration afcended almoſt antient arches Barmouth beautiful Biſhop bridge built Cader Idris Caernarvon Caftle Caſtle celebrated chapel Chepstow Chirk church cloſe confiderable confifts croffed deſcription diſcovered diſtant Dolgelly elegant eminence erected excurfion extenfive fame feat feemed feet feven feveral fhould fide fingular finiſhed firſt fituated fmall fome foon ftands ftill ftone fublime fuch fummit fuppofed furvey Henry Henry VIII higheſt hill houſe inſpection intereſting itſelf landſcape laſt likewife Llangollen Lord Lord Uxbridge Ludlow meaſuring miles moft Monmouth moſt mountains obferved occafionally oppofite ourſelves paffed pictureſque pleaſing pleaſure preſent profpect purpoſe purſue refidence refpect retrofpect rich rifing river river Wye road rock round ruins ſcarcely ſcene ſcenery ſeemed ſeveral ſmall ſpot ſtanding ſteep ſtill ſtone Tan-y-bwlch Tenby themſelves theſe thoſe thouſand Touriſt tower town vale vale of Clwyd veffels vifit village Wales walk walls Weft Welch whilft whoſe wood Wrexham
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第 79 頁 - Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierced by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty.
第 xi 頁 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
第 79 頁 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By fhameful variance betwixt Man and Man.
第 69 頁 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
第 99 頁 - With a woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one may pass an age here and think it a day. If one has a mind to live long and renew his youth. let him come and settle at Festiniog.
第 186 頁 - frefh fuel, add double grandeur to the fcene. But " what peculiarly marks this view, is a circumftance «' on the water : the whole river, at this place, makes " a. precipitate fall ; of no great height, indeed, but " enough to merit the name of a cafcade, though to " the eye, above the ftream, it is an obje& of no con«
第 67 頁 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven. As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the ftorm, Though round its breaft the rolling clouds are . . fpread, Eternal funfhine fettles on its head.
第 77 頁 - There are four fine walks from the house, chiefly through ways artificially made by the proprietor; all dry, kept clean, and composed of materials found on the spot, which is chiefly a coarse stone, of a greyish cast...
第 74 頁 - It stands surrounded with so many noble scenes, diversified with elegance, as well as with grandeur ; the country on the approach to it is so very wild and uncommon, and the place itself is now so embellished by art, that it will be difficult, I believe, to point out a spot that can be put in competition with it, considered either as the object of the painter's eye, the poet's mind, or as a desirable residence for those who, admirers...
第 75 頁 - ... afforded by the scenery of this place and its vicinity, to a mind imbued with any taste, that the impression on mine was increased, after an interval of ten years from the first visit, employed chiefly in travelling among the Alps, the...