Letters written during a tour through South WalesC. and R. Baldwin, 1804 - 80 sider |
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... thing exceed the beauty and sublimity of the rocks as they appear from the water . Impending cliffs tower on both sides , several hun- dred feet high , so near that they almost meet ; having but just room for the river to roll her ...
... thing exceed the beauty and sublimity of the rocks as they appear from the water . Impending cliffs tower on both sides , several hun- dred feet high , so near that they almost meet ; having but just room for the river to roll her ...
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... thing to the left hand . In Porta ad scutam we may easily discover the corruption of Partscewil . The ferry above at Aust , is evidently of greater antiquity than this ; whether the name be derived from Augustus or Ostorius . This was ...
... thing to the left hand . In Porta ad scutam we may easily discover the corruption of Partscewil . The ferry above at Aust , is evidently of greater antiquity than this ; whether the name be derived from Augustus or Ostorius . This was ...
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... thing that could add to the convenience or administer to the pleasure of the inhabitants . " In confirmation of the monk's account , various antiquities discovered at different periods bear ample testimony . Earthen vessels curiously ...
... thing that could add to the convenience or administer to the pleasure of the inhabitants . " In confirmation of the monk's account , various antiquities discovered at different periods bear ample testimony . Earthen vessels curiously ...
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... thing for facts to be buried or strongly mis- stated in the prejudice of the historian , or distorted in their features by the eloquence of diction . Strabo relates a case in point among the Grecians . Lysimachus had been an attendant ...
... thing for facts to be buried or strongly mis- stated in the prejudice of the historian , or distorted in their features by the eloquence of diction . Strabo relates a case in point among the Grecians . Lysimachus had been an attendant ...
Side 79
... thing he undertook ; and that the frowns of heaven were distinctly visible through the future period of his life . But this is taking an undue liberty with the providential government of the world . Respecting individual judgments , it ...
... thing he undertook ; and that the frowns of heaven were distinctly visible through the future period of his life . But this is taking an undue liberty with the providential government of the world . Respecting individual judgments , it ...
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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