A pedestrian tour through North Wales, letters1795 - 120 pages |
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Joseph Hucks. large lake , eleven miles in circumference , and four and a half long . It abounds with pike , perch , trout , and other fish ; the country around is grand and sublime , but not interesting ; ftupendous moun- tains feem ...
Joseph Hucks. large lake , eleven miles in circumference , and four and a half long . It abounds with pike , perch , trout , and other fish ; the country around is grand and sublime , but not interesting ; ftupendous moun- tains feem ...
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... half concealed by the furrounding foliage , peering its broken fummit beyond the most extended branches , and threatening , by its fall , to obftruct the course of the river beneath ; whilst the spreading beach- tree , and mountain ash ...
... half concealed by the furrounding foliage , peering its broken fummit beyond the most extended branches , and threatening , by its fall , to obftruct the course of the river beneath ; whilst the spreading beach- tree , and mountain ash ...
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... half way from Llan- gollen to Wrexham , we croffed a bridge where the two roads meet , and then we bad adieu to the River Dee , which kept its course afterwards to the right of us . Wrexham is a large populous and well built town ...
... half way from Llan- gollen to Wrexham , we croffed a bridge where the two roads meet , and then we bad adieu to the River Dee , which kept its course afterwards to the right of us . Wrexham is a large populous and well built town ...
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... half covered by the creeping ivy , and enchanters night fhade , high gothic windows , which but displayed the horrible gloom that reigned within ; the mouldering tower , shook by every storm , affording an asylum to the owl , the bat ...
... half covered by the creeping ivy , and enchanters night fhade , high gothic windows , which but displayed the horrible gloom that reigned within ; the mouldering tower , shook by every storm , affording an asylum to the owl , the bat ...
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... is now forfaken for the fword , and the bufy roof of industry exchanged for the fickly tent . The town and neighbourhood , as might be expected , abound with numbers of F 2 poor . poor women and children , who are half ftarving [ 5 ]
... is now forfaken for the fword , and the bufy roof of industry exchanged for the fickly tent . The town and neighbourhood , as might be expected , abound with numbers of F 2 poor . poor women and children , who are half ftarving [ 5 ]
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Abber affume almoſt alſo Amlwch amongſt Angleſea annum appearance Bala Beaumaris beautiful becauſe beſt Cader Idris Caernarvon caftle caſtle caufe cauſe circumftances cloſe confequently confiderably courfe courſe Crickhowel croffed dear friend defolation Denbigh deſcription diſtance Ditto Druids eſtabliſh exiſtence facred fafe fame fcarcely feemed ferry fhall fide fimilar fimple firſt fituation fociety fome fometimes foon fubject fuch fummit fuperftition furrounding happineſs himſelf houſe inhabitants intereſting iſland itſelf juſtice laft laſt Llanberis Llangollen meaſure ments miles mind moft Montgomeryshire moſt moun mountains muft muſt myſelf North Wales obfervations occafion ourſelves paffage paſs peaſant pleaſing pleaſure prefent reaſon reſpect rifing river river Clwyd River Dee road rock Ruthin ſcene ſcenery ſeen ſhall ſhort ſhould ſmall ſome South Wales ſpot ſtands ſtate ſtones ſtood ſtorm ſtranger ſtriking tain thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion town ufual utmoſt vale venerable Welſh whilft whofe wiſhes Wrexham yeſterday
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Page 8 - Oh. how can'st thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her vot'ry yields? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even ; All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven — Oh, how can'st thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven...
Page 134 - BUT poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in fo cold a foil, and fo fevere a climate, foon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
Page 134 - In some places, one half the children born die before they are four years of age, in many places before they are seven, and in almost all places before they are nine or ten. This great mortality, however, will...
Page 38 - ... a very high hill, when the vale of Clwyd, in all its beauty, unfolded upon the sight: it appeared like a moving picture, upon which nature had been prodigal of its colours. Hamlets, villages, towns, and castles, rose like enchantment upon this rich carpet, that seemed covered with wood and enclosures; in the midst of it, at the...
Page 127 - ... threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ; and if fo, whether an age of barbarity, with honefty and virtue, or an age of refinement, with effeminacy, vice, and...
Page 12 - ... we can discern no quality which marks any distinction or superiority. The capacity of improvement seems to be the same ; and the talents he may afterwards acquire...
Page 127 - Jpoils of a vanquifhed enemy ; the conch does not found to war, nor is the bolfy (hield itruck as the fignal to meet the threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement ; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ;...
Page 1 - With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow ; If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise ; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. Then grieve not, thou, to whom th...
Page 16 - neath this roof thy wine cheer'd moments pafs, Fill to the good man's name one grateful glafs, To higher zeft mall mem'ry wake thy foul, And virtue mingle in the ennobled bowl. But if like me thro...
Page 16 - Viiions fair, His eyes dance rapture, and his bofom glows ! Friend to the friendlefs, to the fick man Health ; With generous Joy he views th...