A pedestrian tour through North Wales, letters1795 - 120 páginas |
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... happiness I there enjoyed was fcarcely ever inter- rupted , or overshadowed even by the fmalleft cloud of misfortune ; a retrospect will therefore prove to me a conftant fource of fatisfaction , because the memory of the past will not ...
... happiness I there enjoyed was fcarcely ever inter- rupted , or overshadowed even by the fmalleft cloud of misfortune ; a retrospect will therefore prove to me a conftant fource of fatisfaction , because the memory of the past will not ...
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... happiness ; un- deniably there are numerous examples of apparent cheerfulness and content to be found amongst the poor inhabitants of a mud - built cottage ; but are not the fo- cial endearments of domeftic life ( the only fource of ...
... happiness ; un- deniably there are numerous examples of apparent cheerfulness and content to be found amongst the poor inhabitants of a mud - built cottage ; but are not the fo- cial endearments of domeftic life ( the only fource of ...
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... happiness , amongst the lower fpecies of our fellow - creatures , does not bear a juft proportion to that of pain , and that their condition is capable of very essential im provement . Under the preffure of poverty . and misfortune ...
... happiness , amongst the lower fpecies of our fellow - creatures , does not bear a juft proportion to that of pain , and that their condition is capable of very essential im provement . Under the preffure of poverty . and misfortune ...
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... happiness . The face of the country , as far as this place , is for the most part dull and unin- teresting , our road lying chiefly over long and barren mountains , which is pretty much the general appearance of the in- terior part of ...
... happiness . The face of the country , as far as this place , is for the most part dull and unin- teresting , our road lying chiefly over long and barren mountains , which is pretty much the general appearance of the in- terior part of ...
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... happiness ; children bufily employed in picking floes from the bushes that hung over the ftream , or amufing them- felves with throwing pebbles into the water , thus fporting with time , and " reckless that age and forrow with icy hand ...
... happiness ; children bufily employed in picking floes from the bushes that hung over the ftream , or amufing them- felves with throwing pebbles into the water , thus fporting with time , and " reckless that age and forrow with icy hand ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abber affume almoſt alſo Amlwch amongſt Angleſea annum appearance Bala Beaumaris beautiful becauſe beſt Cader Idris Caernarvon caftle caſtle caufe cauſe circumftances cloſe confequently confiderably courfe courſe Crickhowel croffed dear friend defolation Denbigh deſcription diſtance Ditto Druids eſtabliſh exiſtence facred fafe fame fcarcely feemed ferry fhall fide fimilar fimple firſt fituation fociety fome fometimes foon fubject fuch fummit fuperftition furrounding happineſs himſelf houſe inhabitants intereſting iſland itſelf juſtice laft laſt Llanberis Llangollen meaſure ments miles mind moft Montgomeryshire moſt moun mountains muft muſt myſelf North Wales obfervations occafion ourſelves paffage paſs peaſant pleaſing pleaſure prefent reaſon reſpect rifing river river Clwyd River Dee road rock Ruthin ſcene ſcenery ſeen ſhall ſhort ſhould ſmall ſome South Wales ſpot ſtands ſtate ſtones ſtood ſtorm ſtranger ſtriking tain thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion town ufual utmoſt vale venerable Welſh whilft whofe wiſhes Wrexham yeſterday
Pasajes populares
Página 8 - Oh. how can'st thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her vot'ry yields? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even ; All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven — Oh, how can'st thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven...
Página 134 - BUT poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in fo cold a foil, and fo fevere a climate, foon withers and dies. It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have two alive.
Página 134 - In some places, one half the children born die before they are four years of age, in many places before they are seven, and in almost all places before they are nine or ten. This great mortality, however, will...
Página 38 - ... a very high hill, when the vale of Clwyd, in all its beauty, unfolded upon the sight: it appeared like a moving picture, upon which nature had been prodigal of its colours. Hamlets, villages, towns, and castles, rose like enchantment upon this rich carpet, that seemed covered with wood and enclosures; in the midst of it, at the...
Página 127 - ... threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ; and if fo, whether an age of barbarity, with honefty and virtue, or an age of refinement, with effeminacy, vice, and...
Página 12 - ... we can discern no quality which marks any distinction or superiority. The capacity of improvement seems to be the same ; and the talents he may afterwards acquire...
Página 127 - Jpoils of a vanquifhed enemy ; the conch does not found to war, nor is the bolfy (hield itruck as the fignal to meet the threatening foe. Strange ferocious manners were blended with the hofpitality of thofe days ; but, happily for mankind, fuch barbarous features of uncivilized ages are at length every where humanized into more refined and focial enjoyments. Whether fociety has not arrived at an excefs of refinement ; whether a great degree of refinement is not the parent of vice and corruption ;...
Página 1 - With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow ; If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise ; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. Then grieve not, thou, to whom th...
Página 16 - neath this roof thy wine cheer'd moments pafs, Fill to the good man's name one grateful glafs, To higher zeft mall mem'ry wake thy foul, And virtue mingle in the ennobled bowl. But if like me thro...
Página 16 - Viiions fair, His eyes dance rapture, and his bofom glows ! Friend to the friendlefs, to the fick man Health ; With generous Joy he views th...