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... Character of the Wye from Rhayader to Plynlimmon 248 249 The Village of Llangwrig 250 • The Source of the Wye 250 The Source of the Severn . Symond's Yat . . 255 255 · 255 256 Llangoed Castle Confluence of the Edw with the Wye . 253 253 ...
... Character of the Wye from Rhayader to Plynlimmon 248 249 The Village of Llangwrig 250 • The Source of the Wye 250 The Source of the Severn . Symond's Yat . . 255 255 · 255 256 Llangoed Castle Confluence of the Edw with the Wye . 253 253 ...
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... character . Some of the older dwelling - houses about the Green , and elsewhere , are of a better kind ; and there are numerous excellent mansions about the outskirts . The completion of the railway appears likely to produce some change ...
... character . Some of the older dwelling - houses about the Green , and elsewhere , are of a better kind ; and there are numerous excellent mansions about the outskirts . The completion of the railway appears likely to produce some change ...
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... character to the view than any other near - hand woods . The Muses no longer haunt the bowers of Twickenham . Even Pope's villa is gone ; but the site of it is easily discerned , by the house lately erected on it , the very red prospect ...
... character to the view than any other near - hand woods . The Muses no longer haunt the bowers of Twickenham . Even Pope's villa is gone ; but the site of it is easily discerned , by the house lately erected on it , the very red prospect ...
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... character . The mere wayside beauties of nature , -green trees , and fresh grass , and soft mossy hillocks sprinkled over with harebells and daisies , and hawthorn bushes grey in blossom , and slender woodland streamlets , with yellow ...
... character . The mere wayside beauties of nature , -green trees , and fresh grass , and soft mossy hillocks sprinkled over with harebells and daisies , and hawthorn bushes grey in blossom , and slender woodland streamlets , with yellow ...
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... character . The lower reach is the longer , but it is narrower and straighter and less broken by bays and promontories than the other , and the mountains bordering it are less elevated and striking in character . No part of the lower ...
... character . The lower reach is the longer , but it is narrower and straighter and less broken by bays and promontories than the other , and the mountains bordering it are less elevated and striking in character . No part of the lower ...
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Página 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Página 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Página 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Página 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Página 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Página 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Página 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.