 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1790 - 425 pages
...Wye, which, entering on the wf ftern fide, almoft croffes the county meandering to the fouth-eaft, when, turning directly fouth, it reaches the boundary...travellers. The Lug, a confiderable ftream, rifing jn the north-weft, on the confines of Radnor, after flowing acrofs great part of this county, and receiving... | |
 | John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1819
...dividing the counties of Gloucester and Monmouth, falls into the mouth of the Severn, below Chepstow. The romantic beauties of the Wye, which flows in a...clothed with hanging woods, and here and there crowned by rumea castles, have employed the descriptive powers of (he pen and pencil. WYE, a river in Derbyshire,... | |
 | John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1813
...into the mouth of the Severn, below Chepstow. The romantic beauties of the Wye, which flows in a dee|> bed, between lofty rocks clothed with hanging •woods, and here and there crowned by ruined castles, hive employed the descriptive powers of i he pen and pencil. WYE. a river in Derbyshire,... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Great Britain - 1816 - 454 pages
...to Amelia, Louisa, and myself; and the romantic beauties of the winding shores of the Wye, flowing in a deep bed, between lofty rocks clothed with hanging woods, and here and there crowned with ruined castles, varied the scene with a mixture of the most pleasing and sublime prospects in nature." Here... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816
...which Hows in a deep bed, between lofty rocks clothed with banging woods, and here and there crowned by ruined caftles, have employed the defcriptive powers of the pen and pencil. ( j.) WYE, a river of England, which rifes in the NW. part of Derbyfliire, above Buxton, and running... | |
 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 499 pages
...the boundary of Gloucestershire, and then bending westward, arrives at the borders of Monmouthshire. The romantic beauties of the Wye,' which flows in...hanging woods, and here and there crowned with ruined castles, have employed the descriptive powers of the pen and pencil, and frequently engage the curiosity... | |
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