The Tourist's Guide Through the County of Caernarvon: Containing a Short Sketch of Its History, Antiquities ...J. Hulme, 1821 - 189 páginas |
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Página 164 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 99 - Where his glowing eye-balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn : Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop, and Shame to fly. There Confusion, Terror's child, Conflict fierce, and Ruin wild, Agony, that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death.
Página 162 - Eifl soaring above; and the only opening to this secluded spot is towards the sea, a northern aspect! where that chilling wind exerts all its fury, and half freezes, during winter, the few inhabitants.
Página 112 - This extraordinary female was the greatest hunter, shooter, and fisher of her time. She kept a dozen, at least, of dogs, terriers, greyhounds, and spaniels, all excellent in their kinds. She killed more foxes in one year than all the confederate hunts do in ten ; rowed stoutly and was queen of the lake...
Página 143 - Emrys stood, show'd where the serpents fought — The white that tore the red, from whence the prophet wrought The Briton's sad decay, then shortly to ensue.
Página 113 - At length she gave her hand to the most effeminate of her admirers, as if predetermined to maintain the superiority which nature had bestowed on her.
Página 139 - Medd, was so great, that they considered them as created in PARADISE; that when they quitted it on the fall of man, they were blessed by God himself; and therefore no mass ought to be celebrated, but by the light of their waxd.
Página 73 - And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old, And all those worlds that roll around the sun. The sun himself shall die, and ancient night Again involve the desolate abyss...
Página 148 - ... the violence of his own relations, although the immediate vicinity was beset with bands of robbers and outlaws. His predecessor, Hoel ap Evan, was a noted .robber-chief, yet Meredydd did not hesitate to take possession of his new castle. ' For I had rather,' he exclaimed, 'fight with outlaws and thieves than with my own blood and kindred. If I continue in my own house at Efionedd, I must either kill my own relations or be killed by them.
Página 156 - ... found for all diseases. It was customary to cover it with rushes, and leave sick children on it till morning, after making them first undergo ablution in the neighbouring holy well. Mr. Pennant says that in his time he saw on it a feather bed, on which a poor paralytic from Merionethshire had lain the whole night, after undergoing the same ceremony.