Hillman's illustrated historical handbook for tourists to Chepstow ... and other places of interest on and about the Wye [signed S.H.].1878 |
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Hillman's Illustrated Historical Handbook For Tourists To Chepstow ... And ... S H,Alfred Hillman No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 38 - ... buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 4 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 84 - But oft. in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 19 - A blending of all beauties, streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain vine, And chiefless castles breathiug stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where ruin greenly dwells.
Page 84 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Page 38 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 19 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 25 - Rumsey as far as you think fit and I have written. I would not have him or other honest men be discouraged that I think it not fit, at present, to enter into contests; it will be good to yield a little, for public advantage, and truly that is my end, wherein I desire you to satisfy them. I have sent, as my letter mentions, to have you remove out of Brecknockshire; indeed, into that part of Glamorganshire which lieth next Monmouthshire, for this end: we have plain discoveries that Sir Trevor Williams,...
Page 65 - Its battlements being but eight inches thick, were soon broken by the shot of great guns ; but the tower itself received little or no damage from bullets of eighteen and twenty pounds weight, at the rate of sixty shots a day. This tower was joined to the castle by a sumptuous arched bridge...