A Tour in Quest of Genealogy: Through Several Parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Dublin; Interspersed with a Description of Stourhead and Stonehenge; Together with Various Anecdotes, and Curious Fragments from a Manuscript Collection Ascribed to ShakespeareSherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811 - 338 עמודים |
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acquaintance Adieu ancient antiquarian antiquary appearance Barmouth beautiful boast British Cader Idris called Captain Carmarthen Carmarthenshire castle character charming church companion curious DEAR CHARLES dinner Dunkery elegant entertainment excursion fashion favour fortune furnished gave gentleman geoponics give Glastonbury Tor happy Haverfordwest hear heard hill Holnicote honour hour Ireland Jones lady land language late letter likewise live Lord lovely manuscript miles Milford Minehead morning mountain muse never night noble North Wales original passed Pembrokeshire perhaps person poem Porlock present professed racter recollect relic retired road round scene seemed seen Selworthy side Sir Richard Hoare sort South South Wales spot stone Stonehenge Stourhead Stourton suppose taste Tenby thing thou tion told took town tumuli uncle vale Welsh Welsh language whilst whole wood young
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עמוד 150 - Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, First be he true, for truth doth truth deserve : Then such be he, as she his worth may see, And one man still credit with her preserve. Not toying kind, nor causelessly unkind, Not stirring thoughts, nor yet denying right, Not spying faults, nor in plain errors blind, Never hard hand, nor ever reins too light. As far from want, as far from vain expense (The one doth force, the latter doth entice) Allow good company, but keep from thence All filthy mouths...
עמוד 197 - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
עמוד 270 - For within the current of the ditch," he says, " there are erected in manner of a crown, in three ranks or courses, one within another, certain mighty and unwrought stones, whereof some are 28 feet...
עמוד 233 - By thee a vyllage maiden found, No eare had I for measured sounde ; To dresse the fleese that Willie wrought. Was all I knewe, was all I sought. At tbie softe lure too quicke I flewe, Enamou...
עמוד 187 - Cuffe, &c. ; part oi a journal, like most journals, carried on for a month together, then suspended during a period of four or five years ; and memoirs of his own time written by himself. Some of the items are uncommonly curious, as they give you not only the costume of the age he lived in, but let you into his private and domestic life, and the rudiments of his vast conception.
עמוד 191 - Rawleigh, at Iselinton, where that great man shut in, often regales himself with a pipe of his new plant called tibacca...
עמוד 207 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
עמוד 187 - Among the fragments ascribed to Shakespeare, I have been much struck with several of the little poetical pieces, full of quaint and brilliant conceits, and smacking strongly of the great dramatist's playful manner. But the most interesting portion of it consists of letters that passed between him, Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir Philip Sidney, Lord Southampton, Richard Sadleir, Henry Cuffe, &c. part of a journal, like most journals, carried on for a month together, then suspended during a period of four...
עמוד 29 - I was informed, very little more to pay for his lodgings, which he had occupied for three months only. He was a stranger, had something eccentric and mysterious about him, passed off for an Irishman, but was suspected to have been one from North Wales. I bought two or three printed books, and one manuscript quarto volume, neatly written^ importing to be verses and letters that passed between Shakespeare and Anna Hatheway whom he married, as well as letters to.