A Six Months Tour Through the North of England: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, ... In Four Volumes

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W. Strahan; W. Nicoll; T. Cadell; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1771
 

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Сторінка 182 - ... how closely Young associates the romantic and the picturesque with the sublime : It is a small, deep sequestered vale, containing a few inclosures of a charming verdure, finely contrasted by the blackness of the surrounding mountains ... It is one of those scenes one would imagine rather the sport of fancy than the work of nature. Leaving this enchanting region, we crossed a very different country, partaking much more of the terrible sublime, than the pleasing and beautiful . . . The whole river...
Сторінка 79 - ... then you look down upon a valley winding at the bottom of a noble amphitheatre of hanging woods, over one of...
Сторінка 300 - Advancing up the hill to the right, we came to a bench which looked down upon a double cafcade, one falling to appearance from out a cavern of rock, in a juft tafte, into a canal, which forms a little beneath you another fall, and then is loft, to the left, behind wood.
Сторінка 301 - Winding yet further to the right, and croffing a1 woody vale, you mount a little hill, with a tent on the fummit, in a very pi&urefque and agreeable fituation ; for you look down on a fine winding lake, which floats the valley, furrounded by a noble bold fhore of wood rifing from its very banks. In one part of it a green feat is fecn, and an arch in another.
Сторінка 307 - It is in a fmall arm, a hollow in the hanging woods, retired and naturally beautiful : a little gufhing fall of water from the bank into the bafon is...
Сторінка 306 - Greatly worth the trouble of any traveller's going many miles out of his way to view it. Entering the woods from Swinton, the firft point of view we came to was a little white building, by way of a feat, on the point of a round projecting hill ; you look down upon a rapid ftream, through fcattered trees which fringe the flope; the effect fine.
Сторінка 303 - Abbey, an exceeding fine ruin adjoining, and in fight of his ground, lately purchafed by Mr. Aiflabie. Returning from the Abbey, you wind in the valley on the banks of the lake, at the bottom of the tent-hill ; the fpot is exceedingly beautiful ; and the tent-hill, which is a cone of tifing wood, is exquifitdy pretty.
Сторінка 303 - ... winding around the tent-hill, covered with trees, and all incircled by a noble amphitheatre of hanging woods ; the river meandering towards the abbey, which is feen to infinite advantage. Your next view is from the green feat, where the fame noble ruin...
Сторінка 306 - To the right is an opening among the trees, which lets in a moft beautiful view of a range of hanging woods, •which unite to form a gloomy hollow. Behind, through another opening in the adjoining trees, you look upon a fine bend of the river...
Сторінка 183 - ... The whole river . . . divided by one rock, into two vast torrents, pours down a perpendicular precipice . . . The deluging force of the water throws up such a foam and misty rain, that the sun never shines without a . . . rain-bow appearing. The whole scene is gloriously romantic, for on every side it is walled in with pendent rocks an hundred feet high, here projecting in bold and threatening cliffs and there covered with hanging woods . . . The scene is truly sublime. Another enchanting scene...

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