Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, &c: Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: Made in the Summer of the Year 1770A. Strahan, 1800 - 154 pàgines |
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Pàgina 54 - Tintern-abbey hath been defcribed as a folitary, tranquil filence ; but its immediate environs only are meant. Within half a mile of it are carried on great iron-works, which introduce noife and buftle into thefe regions of tranquillity.
Pàgina vi - The very principal light and capital feature of my journey was the river Wye, which I descended in a boat for near forty miles from Ross to Chepstow. Its banks are a succession of nameless beauties ; one out of many you may see not ill described by Mr.
Pàgina 108 - There the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) To make his wonne, low underneath the ground In a deep delve, far from the view of day, That of no living wight he mote be found, Whenso he counselled with his sprights encompassed round.
Pàgina 49 - it does not make that appearance as a distant object which we expected. Though the parts are beautiful, the whole is ill-shaped. No ruins of the tower are left, which might give form, and contrast to the walls, and buttresses, and other inferior parts.
Pàgina 51 - When we stood at one end of this awful piece of ruin and surveyed the whole in one view — the elements of air, and earth, its only covering, and pavement; and the grand, and venerable remains, which terminated both — perfect enough to form the perspective, yet broken enough to destroy the regularity; the eye was above measure delighted with the beauty, the greatness, and the novelty of the scene.
Pàgina 32 - His picture must contain a whole: his archetype is but a part. In general however he may obtain views of such parts of nature, as with the addition of a few trees; or a little alteration in the foreground...
Pàgina 28 - Goodrich-castle, where a very grand view presented itself; and we rested on our oars to examine it. A reach of the river, forming a noble bay, is spread before the eye. The bank, on the right, is steep, and covered with wood; beyond which a bold promontory shoots out, crowned with a castle, rising among the trees. This view, which is one of the grandest on the river, I should not scruple to call correctly picturesque...
Pàgina 40 - what peculiarly marks this view, is a circumftance " on the water : the whole river, at this place, makes " a precipitate fall; of no great height, indeed, but «« enough to merit the name of a cafcade, though to " the eye, above the ftream, it is an object of no con
Pàgina 52 - ... we excufe, perhaps we approve, the neatnefs that is introduced within : it may add to the beauty of the fcene ; to its novelty it undoubtedly does.
Pàgina 20 - The ornaments of the Wye may be ranged under four heads : ground, wood, rocks, and buildings. The ground, of which the banks of the...