 | George Nicholson - 1840 - 692 pages
...high mountains which seem placed there to guard this charming retreat against any invasions. With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one might pass an age there, and think it a day. When we had skirted this " happy... | |
 | Edward Parry - Wales - 1843 - 244 pages
...a study of books," says his lordship to bis friend Mr. Bower, " one might pass an age in this vale, and think it a day. If you have a mind to live long and renew your youth, come with Mrs. Bower and settle at FfeBtiniog. Not long ago there died in this neighbourhood a honest Welsh farmer, who wns... | |
 | Charles Frederick Cliffe - Wales, North - 1850 - 316 pages
...VALE OF FESTfflOG. Who that ever thought about Wales, has not heard of thia famous Vale ? " With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good study of books", wrote Lord Lyttleton in 1756, " one may pass an age there, and think it a day. If... | |
 | Lionel John Beale - Hygiene - 1854 - 238 pages
...were perfect, and he could see to read without spectacles. 1805.— Ffestiniog, North Wales. "With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one might pass an age in this vale and think it a day. If you would enjoy health,... | |
 | William Cathrall - Oswestry (England) - 1855 - 358 pages
...enthusiastically exclaimed, as the celebrated Lord Lyttleton had done on viewing Festiniog Vale, " With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one might pass an age here, and think it a day !" To the south-west lies Carreg Hofa... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Wales - 1857 - 322 pages
...with the friend of one's heart, and with a good study of books, one might pass an age in this vale and think it a day. If you have a mind to live long and to renew your youth, come and settle Vale of I'festmiog from Road to Haricch. at Ffestiniog." Encomiums... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - Wales, North - 1861 - 228 pages
...plenty have charming retreat against any in- 1 been built by the owners of the provasious. With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one might pass im age there and think it a day." Perched on a hill at the head of... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1877 - 122 pages
...with the friend of one's heart, and with a good study of books, one might pass an age in this vale and think it a day. If you have a mind to live long and to renew your youth, come and settle at Festiniog." In the neighbouring mountains, to the NE of Festiniog,... | |
 | Henry Irwin Jenkinson - Betws-y-Coed (Wales) - 1878 - 590 pages
...with the farfumed vale of Ffestiniog, and arrives at the Oakley Arms hotel at Tan y Bwlch. " With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good library of books, one may pass an age here, and think it a day. If one has a mind to live long, and... | |
 | Francis Redfern - Uttoxeter (England) - 1886 - 504 pages
...Captain Astle appears in an engraving on a previous page. He closes his book with these words :" With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good study of books, one might pass whole ages here and think it a day." He died in 1826, aged 83, and was... | |
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With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a good ftudy of books, one might pals an age there, and think it a day. 
