 | sir Richard Colt Hoare (2nd bart.) - 1792 - 200 pages
...on the northern side of the castle, an extensive range of eight of them appears to great advantage. I have seen no town where the military works of art...picturesque features of nature ; and no spot which the artist'will at first sight view with greater rapture, or quit with greater reluctance." * We must not... | |
 | William Cathrall - Wales, North - 1851 - 354 pages
...the adjacent mountain scenery. Sir Richard Colt Hoarc, delighted with the place, says of it, — " I have seen no town where the military works of art...greater rapture or quit with greater reluctance." " I think no description, however enthusiastic," adds Miss Costello, " can do justice to one of the... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Wales - 1857 - 322 pages
...inspection and more intimate knowledge may justify the opinion of Sir RC Hoare, who says of this place—" I have seen no town where the military works of art...greater rapture, or quit with greater reluctance." In like manner, another competent judge, Miss Costello writes—" We had heard much of this boast of... | |
 | Wales - 1870 - 526 pages
...and more intimate knowledge may justify the opinion of Sir R. C. Hoare, who says of this place — " I have seen no town where the military works of art...greater rapture, or quit with greater reluctance." In like manner, another competent judge, Miss Costello, writes — " We had heard much of this boast... | |
 | George Davys Ham - 1885 - 474 pages
...embattled, and flanked by eight embattled towers forty feet in diameter. 8ir KC Hoare wrote of Conway: " I have seen no town where the military works of art...nature, and no spot which the artist will at first eight view with greater rapture or quit with greater reluctance.9 Pearl fishing was at one time an... | |
 | George Davys Ham - 1884 - 88 pages
...embattled, and flanked by eight embattled towers forty feet in diameter. Sir RC Hoare wrote of Conway: " I have seen no town where the military works of art are so happilv blended with the picturesque features of nature, and no spot which the artist will at first... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1891 - 420 pages
...and more intimate knowledge may justify the opinion of Sir R. 0. Hoare, who says of this place — " I have seen no town where the military works of art...greater rapture, or quit with greater reluctance." In bike manner, another competent judge, Miss Costello, writes — " We had heard much of this boast... | |
 | George Davys Ham - 1885 - 528 pages
...embattled, and flanked by eight embattled towers forty feet in diameter. Sir RC Hoare wrote of Conway: " I have seen no town where the military works of art...which the artist will at first sight view with greater raptureorquit with greater reluctance.'* Pearl fishing was at one time an industry of the place, and... | |
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I have seen no town where the military works of art are so happily blended with the picturesque features of nature; and no spot which the artist will at first sight view with greater rapture, or quit with greater reluctance. 