Scenes in North Wales: With Historical Illustrations, Legends, and Biographical NoticesT. T. and J. Tegg, 1833 - 160 Seiten |
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abbey adorned amongst Anglesea arches Bangor bard bardic Beaumaris BEAUMARIS CASTLE beautiful Beddgelert brave breadth bridge British Bulkeley Caernarvon Caernarvonshire called Cambrian castle centre chain Chester Chirk church Clwyd Conway Corwen crown Dafydd demesne Denbigh Denbigh Castle Dolwydellan Earl Edward entrance erected Flint FLINTSHIRE fortress Gelert Glandwr Gryffydd ap Gwydyr Gwynedd hall handsome Harden Castle Harlech HARLECH CASTLE height held hills Holyhead honour inhabitants King Lady lake length Llanberis Llangollen Llanrwst Llyn LLYN OGWEN Lord Meredydd miles Mostyn mountain noble North Wales occupied Ogwen Owen parish passed picturesque piers possession present prince principal reign of Henry Rhuddlan Richard river river Dee rock royal ruins scene scenery seat shire side singular Sir John Sir John Wynne Sir Thomas Myddleton Sir Watkyn Snowdon South SOUTH STACK spacious stone summit surface thousand tower town vale vale of Clwyd village walls waters Welsh William Wynne
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Seite 43 - Nor scathe had he, nor harm, nor dread, But, the same couch beneath, Lay a gaunt wolf, all torn and dead, Tremendous still in death. Ah, what was then Llewelyn's pain ! For now the truth was clear ; His gallant hound the wolf had slain To save Llewelyn's heir.
Seite 49 - O'erturn'd his infant's bed he found, The blood-stain'd cover rent ; And all around the walls and ground With recent blood besprent. He call'd his child, no voice replied ; He search'd with terror wild : Blood, blood he found on every side, But no where found the child. " Hell-hound \ by thee my child's devour'd!
Seite 49 - 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...
Seite 49 - That day Llewellyn little loved the chase of hart or hare, And scant and small the booty proved — for Gelert was not there. Unpleased, Llewellyn homeward hied ; when, near the portal seat, His truant Gelert he espied, bounding his lord to greet. But when he gained...
Seite 48 - And now a gallant tomb they raise, With costly sculpture decked, And marbles, storied with his praise, Poor Gelert's bones protect. Here never could the spearman pass, Or forester, unmoved ; Here oft the tear-besprinkled grass Llewellyn's sorrow proved. And here he hung his horn and spear, And oft, as evening fell, In fancy's piercing sounds would hear Poor Gelert's dying yell I W.
Seite 49 - His hurried search had missed, All glowing from his rosy sleep, His cherub boy he kissed. Nor scratch had he, nor harm, nor dread, But the same couch beneath Lay a great wolf, all torn and dead, Tremendous still in death. Ah, what was then...
Seite 49 - O'erturned his infant's bed he found. With blood-stained covert rent; And all around the walls and ground With recent blood besprent. He...
Seite 43 - Best of thy kind, adieu ! The frantic deed which laid thee low, This heart shall ever rue.
Seite 49 - The hound was smeared with gouts of gore ; His lips and fangs ran blood ! Llewellyn gazed with wild surprise ; Unused such looks to meet, His favourite checked his joyful guise, And crouched, and licked his feet.
Seite 68 - Wide o'er the brim, with many a torrent swell'd, And the mix'd ruin of its banks o'erspread, At last the roused-up river pours along : Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes, From the rude mountain, and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far...