Leigh's guide to Wales & MonmouthshireLeigh and Son, 1835 - 364 pages |
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Page iii
... Various Tours , SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS , NOTICES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS , A DESCRIPTION OF EVERY REMARKABLE PLACE , AND A Minute Account of the Wye . ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP OF WALES , AND VIEWS OF THE MENAI AND CONWAY BRIDGES ...
... Various Tours , SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS , NOTICES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS , A DESCRIPTION OF EVERY REMARKABLE PLACE , AND A Minute Account of the Wye . ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP OF WALES , AND VIEWS OF THE MENAI AND CONWAY BRIDGES ...
Page vi
... various places , the Editor has aimed at brevity , and has endeavoured to shun the high - flown encomiums which so frequently raise expectations never to be gratified . The beauty of scenery can only be adequately appreciated by the eye ...
... various places , the Editor has aimed at brevity , and has endeavoured to shun the high - flown encomiums which so frequently raise expectations never to be gratified . The beauty of scenery can only be adequately appreciated by the eye ...
Page vii
... various causes which have , within the last few years , operated a change in the condition of North Wales , may be mentioned the great and increasing demand for its excellent slate . The various quarries now give employment to several ...
... various causes which have , within the last few years , operated a change in the condition of North Wales , may be mentioned the great and increasing demand for its excellent slate . The various quarries now give employment to several ...
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... various ways ; but I certainly prefer walking when in an interesting country . A man may well be excused if he hurries over a 99 66 district which he already sufficiently knows , or whose features 2 MODE OF TRAVELLING .
... various ways ; but I certainly prefer walking when in an interesting country . A man may well be excused if he hurries over a 99 66 district which he already sufficiently knows , or whose features 2 MODE OF TRAVELLING .
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... various places that are altogether inaccessible to persons either in carriages or on horseback . " The pedestrian should provide himself with strong , pliant , and easy shoes , with short light gaiters , to keep out the dust . These are ...
... various places that are altogether inaccessible to persons either in carriages or on horseback . " The pedestrian should provide himself with strong , pliant , and easy shoes , with short light gaiters , to keep out the dust . These are ...
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Abbey Aberystwith ancient Anglesea appears arches Bangor banks Beaumaris beautiful Beddgelart Bettws y Coed Brecon Bristol built Builth Cader Idris Caerdiff Caermarthen Caernarvon CAERNARVONSHIRE called Capel Curig Castle centre Chapel Chepstow Chester Church churchyard contains Conway Corwen cross Devil's Bridge Distant from Miles Dolgelley earl east Edward eminence erected Excursion feet in height formerly fortress four miles GLAMORGANSHIRE Gothic half a mile Hall Henry hill Holyhead inhabitants Inns-The lake Llan Llanberis Llangollen Llanrwst Llewelyn Llyn lofty London Machynlleth Market is held Mawr Menai Bridge miles distant Monmouth MONMOUTHSHIRE monument mountains Neath North Wales pass Penrhyn picturesque Pont prince principal reign remains remarkable Rhaiadyr river road rock Roman ruins scenery seat Severn Shrewsbury side situated Snowdon stone summit surrounded Swansea Tenby Thence three miles Tour tourist tower town Vale valley vicinity walls waterfall Welsh wood Wynne
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Page 17 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 180 - The largest of the above said islands is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth ; and...
Page 143 - 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.
Page 226 - Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of the...
Page 328 - How many hearts have here grown cold, That sleep these mouldering stones among ; How many beads have here been told, . How many matins here been sung. " On this rude stone, by time long broke, I think I see some pilgrim kneel ; I think I see the censor smoke ; I think I hear the solemn peal.
Page 343 - After sailing four Miles from Ross, we came to Goodrich-castle, where a very grand view presented itself; and we rested on our oars to examine it. A reach of the river, forming a noble bay, is spread before the eye. The bank, on the right, is steep, and covered with wood; beyond which a bold promontory shoots out, crowned with a castle, rising among the trees.
Page 313 - Anglesea, with woods, lakes, and glens, scattered in magnificient confusion. A scene like this commands our feelings to echo, as it were, in unison to its grandeur and sublimity; the thrill of astonishment and the transport of admiration seem to contend for the mastery ; and nerves are touched that never thrilled before ! We seem as if our former existence were annihilated ; and as if a new epoch were commenced. Another world opens upon us; and an unlimited orbit appears to display itself, as a theatre...
Page 113 - Often have these walls Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread He paced around his prison : not to him Did Nature's fair varieties exist ; He never saw the sun's delightful beams, Save when through yon high bars he pour'da sad And broken splendour.
Page 115 - M y time was spent in serving you and you, A nd death's my pay, it seems, and welcome too ; R evenge destroying but itself, while I T o birds of prey leave my old cage and fly ; E xamples preach to the eye — care then (mine says), N ot how you end, but how you spend your days.
Page 327 - ... the rest, each reduced now to a narrow rim of stone, but completely preserving its form. The shapes even of the windows are little altered, but some of them are quite obscured, others partially shaded by tufts of ivy...