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: . more ex-prefled by words, than it can in this full ex-tent be excited by all the graces of Grecian propor- ( «3* ) proportions, and all the decencies of ortho-dox worfhip. The noble cluttered column?form a beautiful fcene in perfpeclive j and,while fome of the rich Gothic ornamentsand pointed arches above, prelent themielvesas if magically fufpended, and raife an ideaof grandeur, accompanied
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: . more ex-prefled by words, than it can in this full ex-tent be excited by all the graces of Grecian propor- ( «3* ) proportions, and all the decencies of ortho-dox worfhip. The noble cluttered column?form a beautiful fcene in perfpeclive j and,while fome of the rich Gothic ornamentsand pointed arches above, prelent themielvesas if magically fufpended, and raife an ideaof grandeur, accompanied, if not with alarmwith fome degree of furprife, the variousruinated fragments of capitals and pillarsbelow, which lie fcattered indifcriminatelyand in part overgrown and buried in bedsof wild flowers and verdant tendrils, createan interefting diforder, and fuggeft ideas,though perhaps of a melancholy tinge, yetfo far from a diftreffing nature as to lull themind to a repofe, congenial to the generalturn of the furrounding fcenery. Th e fmooth and trim manner in whichthe ground is here kept, is not, according toour conception, very much in unifon withthe affemblage of objects around, where broken-. ( J37 ) brokennefs and irregularity are the principaland leading features of the place, the tame-nefs and uniformity produced by it, are in-congruous and out of character. •The weftern window, although in pointof proportion rather too wide for its height,is yet a curious fpecimen of the ancient Go-thic, and no contemptible ftudy for one whois fmitten with a true paffion for the an-tique. The roof of the building is entirelyfallen in, and with it forne of the pillars areloft, but their bafes ftill remain above thefurface of the ground, fo as to enable theantiquary, if he has the leaft of the archi-tect about him, very eafily to give a groundplot of the whole. In the middle of the nave, the loftyarches which once fupported the fleeple, rifehigh above the reft ; but though they retain
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