My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 18
... round . Pleas'd memory still delights to linger here And many a cheek is moistened with a tear . The wife , the child , the parent , and the friend In soft regret by these sweet trophies bend . Nor let the selfish sneer , the proud ...
... round . Pleas'd memory still delights to linger here And many a cheek is moistened with a tear . The wife , the child , the parent , and the friend In soft regret by these sweet trophies bend . Nor let the selfish sneer , the proud ...
Page 23
... round the top , which had a low parapet on the outer side , while on the inner we looked down to the bottom of the tower , which descended below the ground - level into an excavation said to have been the dungeon . The top of the walls ...
... round the top , which had a low parapet on the outer side , while on the inner we looked down to the bottom of the tower , which descended below the ground - level into an excavation said to have been the dungeon . The top of the walls ...
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... round its top- all come before me as I recall these earlier days with a dis- tinctness strangely contrasted with the vague shadowy figures of the human beings who were my constant associates in all these scenes . In the house I ...
... round its top- all come before me as I recall these earlier days with a dis- tinctness strangely contrasted with the vague shadowy figures of the human beings who were my constant associates in all these scenes . In the house I ...
Page 27
... round the top wall , and every- thing seemed to me exactly as I knew it of old , and neither smaller nor larger than my memory had so long pictured it . The view of the Abergavenny mountains pleased and interested me as in childhood ...
... round the top wall , and every- thing seemed to me exactly as I knew it of old , and neither smaller nor larger than my memory had so long pictured it . The view of the Abergavenny mountains pleased and interested me as in childhood ...
Page 33
... round . Where the river passed under the bridge close by , we could clamber up and look over the parapet into the deep , clear water rushing over a dam , and also see where the stream that turned the wheel passed swiftly under a low ...
... round . Where the river passed under the bridge close by , we could clamber up and look over the parapet into the deep , clear water rushing over a dam , and also see where the stream that turned the wheel passed swiftly under a low ...
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