A Six Weeks Tour, Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales: Describing, Particularly, I. The Present State of Agriculture and Manufactures. II. The Different Methods of Cultivating the Soil. III. The Success Attending Some Late Experiments on Various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The State of the Working Poor in Those Counties, Wherein the Riots Were Most Remarkable. With Descriptions and Copper-plates, of Such Newly Invented Implements of Husbandry as Deserve to be Generally Known: Interspersed with Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Objects Worthy of Notice, 第 1 卷W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, no. 51. in St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh., 1769 - 377 頁 |
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第 90 頁 - ... the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you, that it is past description ; — the Thames winding through it, full of ships, and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed it, unless that which Hannibal exhibited to his disconsolate troops when he bade them behold the glories of the Italian plains...
第 145 頁 - From Newnham to Chepstow, the road continues excessively stony, and made in the same vile manner as that from Gloucester. In many places the road is so very narrow, that my chaise with difficulty got through it without rising on the banks. There is one circumstance which would render the best turnpike in England extremely bad to travel, and that is the perpetual hills, for you will form a clear idea of them if you suppose the (face of the) country to represent the roofs of houses joined, and the...
第 10 頁 - Returning to the landfcape-room, you pafs into the ftate bed-chamber, 30 by 24, which is fitted up in a moft elegant tafte. It is hung with French tapeftry, except between the piers, which is by Mr.
第 167 頁 - Somerfetihire, are, together, fuch a bewitching view, that nothing can exceed it, and contains more romantic variety, with fuch an apparent • junction of feparate parts, that imagination can fcarcely conceive any thing equal to the amazing reality. The view of the right, over the park, and the winding valley at the bottom of it, would, from any other fpot but this, be thought remarkably fine. ' The winding road down to the cold bath, is cool, fequeftered, and agreeable.
第 88 頁 - ... of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near 12 miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge. The ruts are of an incredible depth, and a pavement of diamonds might as well be fought for as a quarter. The trees everywhere overgrow the road, so that it is totally impervious to the sun except at a few places.
第 89 頁 - Such a prodigious valley, every where painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you, that it is past description ; the Thames wind ing through it, full of ships, and bounded by the hills of Kent.
第 170 頁 - ... which, my pen drops from my hand: — No, my good friend, the eyes of your imagination are not keen enough to take in this point, which the united talents of a Claud, a Pou l'un, a Vernet, and a Smith, wou'd fcarcely be able to iketch.
第 223 頁 - The river appears winding in a proper manner; that is, dark and gloomy, around a rough piece of grass, which has a consistent appearance, but what hurt me very much, was the contradiction of emotions raised by the scene behind; . . . elegant and agreeable; a...
第 3 頁 - Holkam, the celebrated houfe of the Countefs of Leicefter, built by the late Earl, cannot be viewed with too much attention. I was informed that it appeared by much the moft magnificent when entered by the fouthern approach, and therefore went a fmall round for that advantage ; nor did I in the leaft repent it. The firft objects are a few fmall clumps of trees, which juft catch your attention, and give you warning of an approach : they Iketch out the way to the triumphal arch, under B 2 which [ 4...
第 14 頁 - ... from a coach into it, without any quarry of winding fteps to wet a lady to the fkin before fhe gets under cover. From the hall you rife to the faloon, or firft floor, and there is no attick. Thus you perceive there are four general apartments, which are all diftinct from each, with no reciprocal thoroughfares ) the ftate her Ladyfhip's the late Earl's and the ftrangers wing.