 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1822 - 202 pages
...Wihdcliff is the last grand scene of the Piersfield sublime Drama, and should have been in84 eluded in the grounds. If an opinion must be given concerning...similar scene, though a thousand views of sea, vale, and rock, may be of corresponding character, with only slight differences of surface. But the ground... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, William Gilpin - Wye, River (Wales and England) - 1834 - 216 pages
...abyss, of rough and smooth, of recess and projection, of fine landscape anear, and exquisiteperspective afar, all melting into each other, and grouping in...counterpart in the tropical climes, it is, as to England, probubly unique. It is unlikely that the mouths of two rivers should be so adjacent or so arranged... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1852 - 388 pages
...of wood, rock, water. .sky and plain — ol height and abyss — of rou^li and4 smooth — of recesa and" projection — of fine landscape anear, and exquisite...all melting into each other, and grouping in such capacious lines, that although it may find a counterpart ia tropical climes, it is, as to England,... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Monmouthshire (Wales) - 1854 - 104 pages
...comprehends all the noble scenes of Pierccfield, encompassed by some of the finest country in Britain. capricious lines, that although it may find a counterpart...similar scene, though a thousand views of sea, vale and rock, may bo of corresponding character, with only slight differences of surface; but the ground... | |
 | Wye, River, Valley (Wales and England) - 1858 - 118 pages
...plain ; of height and abyss, of rough and smooth, of recess and projection, of fine landscape a-uear, and exquisite perspective afar, all melting into each...similar scene, though a thousand views of sea, vale and rock, may be of corresponding character, with only slight differences of surface ; but the ground... | |
 | G. Phillips Bevan - Wye River Valley - 1892 - 172 pages
...combination of wood, rock, water, sky, and plain, of height and abyss, of rough and smooth, of reeoss and projection, of fine landscape anear and exquisite...each other and grouping in such capricious lines that it is probably unique in England." — (Fosbrooke.) This is, perhaps, the best description of the view... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 pages
...and smooth, of recess and projection, of fine landscape nenr, and exquisite perspective far off— all melting into each other, and grouping in such...lines that, although it may find a counterpart in tropical climes, itls, as to Kngland probably, unique. The spectator stands upon the edge or a precipice,... | |
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If an opinion must be given concerning the hack question, "which is the grandest scene on the Wye " the answer must be, " the Prospect from Windcliff." It is not only magnificent, but it is so novel, that it excites an involuntary start of astonishment,... 