The Wye tour, or Gilpin on the Wye

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W. Farror, 1834 - 199 頁
 

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第 21 頁 - There is an easy ascent to the top, and the view far preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember) because this is lower and nearer to the Lake: for I find all points that are much elevated spoil the beauty of the valley, and make its parts (which are not large) look poor and diminutive.
第 48 頁 - ... on the left, and is the .grand feature of the view. It is not a broad fractured face of rock; but. rather a woody hill, from which large rocky projections in two or three places, burst out, rudely hung with twisting branches and...
第 27 頁 - Nature is always great in design, but unequal in composition. She is an admirable colourist; and can harmonize her tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty: but is seldom so correct in composition, as to produce an harmonious whole. Either the foreground, or the background, is disproportioned: or some awkward line runs across the piece: or a tree is illplaced: or a bank is formal: or something, or other is not exactly what it should be.
第 13 頁 - ... a greater rapidity, and more agitation to a certain degree are animating; but in excess, instead of wakening, they alarm the senses; the roar and the rage of a torrent, its force, its violence, its impetuosity, tend to inspire terror; that terror, which, whether as cause or effect, is so nearly allied to sublimity...
第 49 頁 - Teurist, p 4:37, twisting branches and shaggy furniture, which, like mane round the lion's head, give a more savage air to these wild exhibitions of nature. Near the top, a pointed fragment of solitary rock, rising above the rest, has rather a fantastic appearance ; but it is not without its effect in marking the scene. — A great master in landscape has adorned an imaginary view with a circumstance exactly similar.
第 36 頁 - Rure-dean-church unfolds itself next; which is a scene of great grandeur. Here, both sides of the river are steep, and both woody; but in one the woods are intermixed with rocks. The deep umbrage of the forest of Dean occupies the front; and the spire of the church rises among the trees. The reach of the river, which exhibits this scene, is long; and, of...
第 74 頁 - A more pleasing retreat could not easily be found. The woods and glades intermixed; the winding of the river; the variety of the ground; the splendid ruin, contrasted with the objects of nature; and the elegant line formed by the summits of the hills, which include the whole; make all together a very enchanting piece of scenery.
第 170 頁 - He sat in the hall of his shells in Lochlin's woody land. He called the grey-haired Snivan, that often sung round the circle of Loda : when the stone of power heard his voice, and battle turned in the field of the valiant ! "Go, grey-haired Snivan," Starno said, "go to Ardven's sea-surrounded rocks.
第 51 頁 - ... ore, with coal, and with cinders; the fuel for it is brought down a path, worn into steps, narrow and steep, and winding among precipices, and near it is an open space of barren moor, about which are scattered the huts of the workmen.
第 12 頁 - ... a .gloom, which no art can dissipate, nor even the sunshine disperse. A gently murmuring rill, clear and shallow, just gurgling, just dimpling, imposes silence, suits with solitude, and leads to meditation...

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