The gossiping guide to Wales. By A. Roberts |
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Aberystwyth ancient Arrenig ascent Bala Bangor Barmouth beautiful Beddgelert Bettws-y-coed bridge Cader Idris Cambrian Cambrian Railway Capel Curig Carnarvon Carnedd Dafydd Carnedd Llewelyn Castle church Conway Corwen cromlech cross Cwm Bychan Cynicht Denbigh descend Dinas Diphwys distance Dolgelley Fach Fawr feet Festiniog Fishing Foel glacier Glaslyn Glyder Glyder Fach half Harlech Hebog hill Hotel hour Junction lake Llan Llanberis Llandudno Llangollen Llyn looking Mawr Menai Moel Fammau Moel Hebog Moel Siabod Moelwyn moraine moun mountain Mynydd Nant North Wales Ogwen Orme's Head Oswestry pass path Penmaenmawr Penygwryd Pont Portmadoc rail railway station reach Rhinog Rhinog Fawr Rhyd-du Rhyl ridge river road rocks round route runs scenery seen shore Shrewsbury side slopes Snowdon Snowdonian soon stone stream summit tain three miles tourists tower town Towyn train Tryfan turn Vale valley village visitors walk wall Welsh Wyddfa
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Page 184 - O'erturned his infant's bed he found, The blood-stained covert rent ; And all around the walls and ground With recent blood besprent. He called his child,- — no voice replied — He searched with terror wild; Blood, blood he found on every side, But nowhere found his child. "Hell-hound! my child's by thee devoured," The frantic father cried ; And to the hilt his vengeful sword He plunged in Gelert's side.
Page 184 - The frantic father cried; And to the hilt his vengeful sword He plunged in Gelert's side. His suppliant looks, as prone he fell, No pity could impart; But still his Gelert's dying yell Passed heavy o'er his heart. Aroused by Gelert's dying yell, Some slumberer wakened nigh: What words the parent's joy could tell To hear his infant's cry!
Page 184 - Oh ! where does faithful Gelert roam? The flower of all his race ; So true, so brave, — a lamb at home, A lion in the chase...
Page 111 - Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Page 76 - Johnson delighted to stand and repeat verses, erected an urn with the following inscription : ' This spot was often dignified by the presence of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Whose moral writings, exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, Gave ardour to Virtue and confidence to Truth.
Page 72 - The whole is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse ; the seat is in the middle; it carries but one person, or, if a second goes into it to be wafted over a river, he stands behind the rower, leaning on his shoulders.
Page 58 - And a pretty long age, too, if all that was told to his lordship was gospel. " If you have a mind," said he, writing to his friend Mr. Bower, "to live long and renew your youth, come and settle at Festiniog. Not long ago there died in this neighbourhood an honest Welsh farmer, who was one hundred and five years of age. His youngest son was eighty-one years younger than his eldest, and eight hundred persons, his lineal descendants, attended his funeral.
Page 181 - It has truly been said, as we all must deplore, That Grenville and Pitt have made peers by the score ; But now 'tis asserted, unless I have blunder'd, There's a man that makes peeresses here by the hundred. He regards neither Portland, nor Grenville, nor Pitt, But creates them at once without patent or writ ; By the stroke of a hammer without the king's aid, A...