Letters written during a tour through South WalesC. and R. Baldwin, 1804 - 80 sider |
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Side viii
... river Ogmore - Remarkable stream issuing from under the hill - Abbey of Ewenny - Bridgend— Woollen Manufactory ... rivers - Cadoxtón - Pedigree of the Williams's family- Family distinctions not peculiar to the Welsh - Vale of the Nedd ...
... river Ogmore - Remarkable stream issuing from under the hill - Abbey of Ewenny - Bridgend— Woollen Manufactory ... rivers - Cadoxtón - Pedigree of the Williams's family- Family distinctions not peculiar to the Welsh - Vale of the Nedd ...
Side xi
... River Teifi - Cilgerran Castle , bold and impregnable situation- Great cattle fair - Llechryd - Salmon leap at Kennarth - New Castle Elmlin - Teifi nearly dry - Mode of quickly preparing new corn for the mill - State of agriculture ...
... River Teifi - Cilgerran Castle , bold and impregnable situation- Great cattle fair - Llechryd - Salmon leap at Kennarth - New Castle Elmlin - Teifi nearly dry - Mode of quickly preparing new corn for the mill - State of agriculture ...
Side 2
... rivers , and other commanding situations . Thus form- ing a line of fortified posts , for defensive or offen- sive co ... river , and completed the reduction of the Silures , the line was extended still westward to Caerwent and Callena ...
... rivers , and other commanding situations . Thus form- ing a line of fortified posts , for defensive or offen- sive co ... river , and completed the reduction of the Silures , the line was extended still westward to Caerwent and Callena ...
Side 3
... river . This appears to be of much later date , and was probably an intrenchment of the royal or parliamentary forces , when they lay en- camped on Leigh and Durdham Downs before the siege of Bristol . Those on the Leigh side are by far ...
... river . This appears to be of much later date , and was probably an intrenchment of the royal or parliamentary forces , when they lay en- camped on Leigh and Durdham Downs before the siege of Bristol . Those on the Leigh side are by far ...
Side 4
... river below , and a fort opposite the cwm ; all combined to render it peculiarly terrible ; and a strong post of defence against the desultory mode of warfare gene- rally practised by the Britons . Situated on a large and navigable river ...
... river below , and a fort opposite the cwm ; all combined to render it peculiarly terrible ; and a strong post of defence against the desultory mode of warfare gene- rally practised by the Britons . Situated on a large and navigable river ...
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Side 346 - guilt with pallid fear To sheltering caverns fly, And justly dread the vengeful fate That thunders through the sky. Protected by that hand, whose law The threat'ning storms obey, Intrepid virtue smiles secure As in the blaze of day. In the thick cloud's tremendous gloom, The lightning's
Side 101 - Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The shrieks of death through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king.
Side 374 - sky, Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer; Where in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived
Side 349 - in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call us, we shall, after death, change this poor uncertain life for a better, where we shall be
Side 349 - And keep their impious turbans on, without Good morrow to the sun. Hail thou fair Heaven ! We house i'the rock, yet use thee not so hardly As prouder livers do.
Side 226 - Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head, While stray'd my eyes o'er Tbwy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had- her fill.
Side 349 - as low as ours. Stoop boys, this gate Instructs you how t'adore the heavens, and bows you To morning's holy office. The gates of monarchs Are arched so high, that giants may get
Side 288 - the Dane was to give the king a hawk for liberty every time he landed to traffic through England. Sir John Stanley had a grant of the Isle of Man from Henry IV. to be held of the king his heirs and successors, by homage and service of two falcons
Side 225 - in whose silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have the evening still, At the fountain of a rill,
Side 378 - Thomas, and his son, William Earl of Pembroke, who was beheaded at Banbury. Sir William Thomas lived in the reign of King Henry V. (1413), and was present with the king, in company with Sir David Gam, at the ever memorable battle of Agincourt, where he lost his life. What corroborates this opinion is, that