Sketches and Legends Amid the Mountains of North Wales: In VerseT. & W. Boone, 1840 - 134 Seiten |
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amid BATTLE OF WATERLOO beams beauty Beddgelert beneath Bond Street BOONE bowers breathed breeze bright British brow Brymbo Cader Idris calm Cambria's CARLISLE CATHEDRAL CHARLES JAMES NAPIER charms cherish'd cliff COLONEL NAPIER'S dark deep distant doth dream E'en earth echo eyes fair fancy farewell fleeting fresh frowning gaze Gelert glad glance gleam glories glow grief hallow'd Harp hath heart Heaven hill hour legend lingering Llanberis lofty lone lustre mantle memory mind mingled mirth mountains mournful murmur NAPIER ne'er neath night o'er Palenqué pass'd path PENINSULAR WAR post 8vo pride radiance rage Rifle Brigade rocks Rowena Saxon scenes seem'd shade shed shroud sink sleep slumbering smile Snowdon Snowdonia song soothe sound spirit spot stern strain stream sweep sweet Temple Church thee thou thoughts throne turn'd vale vision voice volume Vortigern Vortimer Waldeck Wales wander waves whispers wild
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Seite 126 - Snowdon was held as sacred by the ancient Britons, as Parnassus was by the Greeks, and Ida by the Cretans. It is still said, that whosoever slept upon Snowdon would wake inspired, as much as if he had taken a nap on the hill of Apollo. The Welsh had always the strongest attachment to the tract of Snowdon. Our princes had, in addition to their title, that of Lord of Snowdon...