A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Yer 1774R. Jennings, 1816 - 226 pages |
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A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 Samuel Johnson,Richard Duppa No preview available - 2019 |
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Amlwch Asaph Aston Bâch y Graig Bala Bangor Baron Hill Bart Beaumaris Beaumaris Castle Beddgelert Blenheim Park Bodfari Bodville Boswell Bridge Bryn o dol built Caernarvon called cascade Castle cataract Cathedral Chapel Chester church Conway Corwen curiosity Denbigh Denbighshire Diary dined dinner distance Dolbadrne Dolgelle Dovedale English Gelidus Greek Gwaynynog Hagley heard Hill Holywell Hypocaust Ilam inches Johnson Journey lady letter Lichfield lived Llan Llanberis Llangollen Llangwinodyl Llanrhaiadr Llanrwst Lleweney Llyn Lord Lucy Porter Machynlleth miles distant mind Miss Seward mother told thee mountain Myddelton Nant Oswestry Oxford Paoli parish pass Penmaen Penmaen Mawr pillars Pont pounds printed Rhaiadr Rhôs river road rock Ruthin says seat of Sir shewed shillings Shrewsbury Sir Thomas Snowdon stones Tan-y-bwlch Thrale thy mother told towers town Tydweilliog vale visited Wales walk wall Walmsley Welsh Wrexham Wynne
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Page 40 - Dovedale by the extent of its prospects, the awfulness of its shades, the horrors of its precipices, the verdure of its hollows, and the loftiness of its rocks. The ideas which it forces upon the mind are, the sublime, the dreadful, and the vast. Above is inaccessible altitude: below is horrible profundity.
Page 71 - You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
Page 152 - The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket ; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. From the author of Fitzosborne's Letters I cannot think myself in much danger. I met him only once about thirty years ago, and in some small dispute reduced him to whistle ; having not seen him since, that is the last impression.
Page 138 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Page 149 - Dr. Johnson shook the hospitable master of the house kindly by the hand, and said, " Farewell my dear Sir, and remember that I wish you all the success which ought to be wished you, which can possibly be wished you indeed — by an honest man.
Page 154 - Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or week, but a friendship of twenty years, is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has- provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Page 39 - We saw Hawkestone, the seat of Sir Rowland Hill, and were conducted by Miss Hill over a large tract of rocks and woods — a region abounding with striking scenes and terrific grandeur. We were always on the brink of a precipice, or at the foot of a lofty rock ; but the steeps were seldom naked ; in many places oaks of uncommon magnitude shot up from the crannies of stone ; and where there were not tall trees there were underwoods and bushes.
Page 77 - The water was, however, turned on, and produced a very striking cataract — They are paid a hundred pounds a year for permission to divert the stream to the mines — The river, for such it may be termed, rises from a single spring, which, like that of Winifred's, is covered with a building.
Page 159 - Lucy Porter kept the best company of our little city, but would make no engagement on marketdays, lest Granny, as she called Mrs. Johnson, should catch cold by serving in the shop. There Lucy Porter took her place, standing behind the counter, nor thought it a disgrace to thank a poor person who purchased from her a penny battledore.
Page 58 - DUPPA.] 5 [Lloyd was raised to the see of St. Asaph in 1680. He was one of the seven bishops who were sent to the Tower in 1688, for refusing to permit the publication of the royal declaration for liberty of conscience, and was a zealous promoter of the revolution. He died Bishop of Worcester, August 30, 1717, at ninety-one years of age.