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Title: Picturesque views on the river Wye, from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow: with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity:
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800
Subjects: Wye, River (Wales and England)
Publisher: London : R. Faulder (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nexedview will give a faint idea. A little below is Cadithil Weir, fromwhence we dropped pleafantly down the R 2 ftream ft ream to another village called BrooksWeir, which is confidered a half way dis-tance from Monmouth to Chepftow. Atthis place the goods fent from Monmouthare fhipped and conveyed in larger veflels toBr ftol. The river, in an eafy meanderingcourfe, foon brought us within view of themoft picturefque object on its banks, thefplendid and very elegant ruin of TinternAbbey, tc Thefe are fair fcenes where if art whilom trod, Led by the worll of guides fell tyranny, And with lefs fuperftition, we now trace Pier footfleps with delight; and pleasd revere What once we fhould have hated. Approaching this fublime and fequef-tered fpot, the enthunaftic lover of fimpli-city in art and nature, the admirer of thepifturefque and beautiful, the antiquaryand the moralift will feel the effect, as itwere, of enchantment, and become loft al-moft in a pleafing melancholy. The fleepy hills,
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X s tN ( l33 ) hills? the hanging woods, the xo^^%fiream, the nodding ruin, the furvivingmonuments of fallen grandeur and beautyin decay ; the conftrucled fpace, the fkiilnelsand retirment, all confpire to imprefs themind with awe, and for a moment withdrawfrom its vain purfuit of wealth and power,and ab(tra6l it from the world. On this re-main, a very able writer has remarked, that<c were the building ever fo beautiful, in- compared as it is with fhabby houfes, it could make no appearance from the ri-f< ver. In this we effentially differ, andprefent the annexed view in fupport of ouropinion. Here every cottage appears as itreally exifts on the fpot -, and the petty, orif* you pleafe paltry accompaniments towhich he alludes, appear to us £o far fromdiminifhing the grandeur of the generalefFecr, that they ferve rather on the con-trary as a fcale, and give magnitude to theprincipal objecr. The ( 34 ) The ruined windows, pillars, andmouldings are all of them very elegant fpe-cimen

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