The Cambro-Briton, Volume 2J. Limbird., 1821 - Wales |
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... hill . Am ardal Caer Dathl Amdrychion berion buant , Amgoch bryn , a phenryn , a phant . — Cynddelw . Around the territory of Caer Dathl There were mangled ones about of vultures Reddening around the hill , and promontory , and dale ...
... hill . Am ardal Caer Dathl Amdrychion berion buant , Amgoch bryn , a phenryn , a phant . — Cynddelw . Around the territory of Caer Dathl There were mangled ones about of vultures Reddening around the hill , and promontory , and dale ...
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... hills . The principal street runs about half the length of the town , and to the stranger certainly presents no very imposing appearance . But , however uncouth the houses in the town may be , and it must be confessed that there is ...
... hills . The principal street runs about half the length of the town , and to the stranger certainly presents no very imposing appearance . But , however uncouth the houses in the town may be , and it must be confessed that there is ...
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and scattered on the declivities of the hills around , so that , not- withstanding the general carping of travellers on the bad struc- ture and irregularity of the houses , and on the mean appearance of the town generally , the ...
and scattered on the declivities of the hills around , so that , not- withstanding the general carping of travellers on the bad struc- ture and irregularity of the houses , and on the mean appearance of the town generally , the ...
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... hill thickly clothed with wood , through which the mountain river Aran impetuously rushes to mingle its foaming waters with the Wnion . To the left are the green woods and hills of Llwyn , with the lonely mansion of that name , shrouded ...
... hill thickly clothed with wood , through which the mountain river Aran impetuously rushes to mingle its foaming waters with the Wnion . To the left are the green woods and hills of Llwyn , with the lonely mansion of that name , shrouded ...
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... hill , and only separated from the river below by a tottering stone - work . The opposite shore presents a fine view of the hills of Celynin and Arthog , while the river itself , here about two miles broad , is † Vol . i . p . 306.-ED ...
... hill , and only separated from the river below by a tottering stone - work . The opposite shore presents a fine view of the hills of Celynin and Arthog , while the river itself , here about two miles broad , is † Vol . i . p . 306.-ED ...
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Page 210 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 354 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 212 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder, broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook...
Page 211 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing...
Page 166 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; — Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others, whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables * true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Page 163 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 277 - To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Page 163 - Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 164 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 215 - Among them he arrived ; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent...