English works of the Rev. Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain)

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Spurrell, 1868
 

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Página 318 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Página 269 - old inhabitants," had he conversed with them either in English or Welsh, might have informed him that they had two such mounds, one on the north and the other on the south of the Dee.
Página 203 - ... and Jenkin, from the latter of whom sprang a long succession of knightly descendants. Two of these were created baronets.
Página 192 - Oak, pendent to a ribbon, about their necks ; but it was thought proper to lay it aside, lest it might create heats and animosities, and open those wounds afresh, which at that time were thought prudent should be healed...
Página 117 - different parts of the park and her statements were always accurate. Among " those persons in England, who have the same faculty, she says she never knew " it so strong in any as in Sir CH and Miss F. It is extraordinary that no effect " is produced at a well or ditch, or where earth does not interpose between the " twig and the water. The exercise of the faculty is independent of any volition.
Página 78 - A Gothic bishop perhaps thought it proper to repeat such a form in such particular shoes or slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head and a crosier in his hand.
Página 291 - Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Página 241 - I have the honour to be, My Lord, With great respect, Your Lordship's most obedient, And very humble servant,
Página 552 - ... be placed on a level with the most admired compositions of the ancients. But, instead of rejecting the improbable tales of chronicle writers, he was at the utmost pains to adorn them ; and hath clothed, with all the beauties and graces of fiction...
Página 107 - Llansantffraid bridge. 3. Vyrnwy is a well-known and easily-defined river, from the western boundary of this parish to its junction with the Severn, at Cymmerau, on the verge of Shropshire. Drayton, in his Polyolbion, canto vi., says, " Forht Vurnway, bringing Tur and Tanot; growing rank, She plies her towards the pool." "What pool the versifying topographer meant in this place is not evident. His term "forkt...

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