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12 miles abbey Abergavenny Aberystwith Aikin ancient appears arches ascended banks Barber Barmouth beautiful Bingley bridge building built Cader Idris Caer Caerdiff Caernarvon Caernarvonshire Caerwent called Capel Curig castle chapel Chepstow church Conwy Corwen Cowbridge cross Denbighshire descended Dinas distance Dolgelly earl elegant eminence erected Evans excursion feet Glocester gothic height Hereford hill Hutton lake Llan Llanberis Llandilo Llangollen Llanrwst Llyn lofty lord Malkin Mallwyd mansion Moel Monmouthshire moun mountains Nant ornamented parish passed Pennant picturesque Pont pool precipice remains Rhayader rising river road rock roman round ruins Ruthin saxon scene scenery seat Severn side situated Skrine Snowdon spot stands steep stone summit surrounded Swansea tains thence tion tower town Traeth Mawr Tregaron vale valley Vawr village Wales walk walls Warner Welsh whence wood Wyndham yards
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Page 373 - While, fierce iu martial state, The mailed host in long array, With crested helms and banners gay, Burst from the thundering gate. In happier times, how brightly blazed The hearth with ponderous billets raised, . • How rung the vaulted halls, When smoaLed the feast, when care was drown'd, When songs and social glee went round, Where now the ivy crawls.
Page 181 - Hafpock, the nest of the hawk, from whence we saw a phenomenon, new to our eyes, but common in Wales...
Page 373 - ... enraptured throng. But see ! beneath yon shattered roof what mouldy cavern, sun-beam proof, with mouth infectious yawns Î 0 ! sight of dread ! О ! ruthless doom ! on that deep dungeon's solid gloom nor hope nor day-light dawns. Yet there, at midnight's sleepless hour, while boisterous revels shook the tower, bedewed with damps forlorn, the warrior captive pressed the stones, and lonely breathed unheeded moans, despairing of the morn.
Page 373 - T is past ! the marcher's princely court, the strength of war, the gay resort, ia mouldering silence sleeps ; and o'er the solitary scene, while Nature hangs her garlands green, neglected Memory weeps. The muse too weeps : in hallowed hour here sacred Milton own'd her power, and woke to nobler song ; the wizard's baffled wiles essayed, here first the pure angelic maid subdued th
Page 13 - Ogmore, which would yet be there as soon as they, By Avon called in ; when nimbler Neath anon (To all the neighbouring nymphs for her rare beauties known ; Besides her double head, to help her stream that hath Her handmaids, Melta sweet, clear Hepsey and Tragarth) Prom Brecknock forth doth break ; then Dulas, and Cleddaugh, By Morgany do drive her through her watery saugh ; With Tawy, taking part t...
Page 95 - we passed the barbican, now built up into habitations ; and, proceeding between two dilapidated towers, entered the great area of the castle. A range of building, beneath the rampart on our right, once formed the barracks of the garrison. We then advance to that pile of superior building, ie of citadel, hall, chapel, state, and other apartments, which is generally considered as the castle, in distinction from the encircling area and its wall. Clambering over the fragments of another draw-bridge...
Page 373 - The warrior captive pressed the stones, And lonely breathed unheeded moans, Despairing of the morn. That too is past — unsparing Time, Stern miner of the tower sublime, Its night of ages broke, Freedom and peace with radiant smile Now carol o'er the dungeon vile That cumb'rous ruins choak.
Page 353 - ... until the corpse was reduced to ashes, or so that the flesh was consumed, and the bones nearly burnt; then the charcoal and ashes were covered with earth, and sometimes stones were laid upon it.
Page 181 - ... and solemn scene; ideas of immensity swelled and exalted our minds at the sight; all lesser objects appeared mean and trifling...
Page 181 - ... relief to the eyes : but the mountains of Snowdon, covered with darknefs and thick clouds, called to my memory the fall of mount Sinai, with the laws delivered from it, and filled...