Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . m x. IN ?o <] ^ 9 ® -s -i bs Q N I. OF SHROPSHIRE. [19 opinions, which are defined in a short account of his life and death, by the late Rev. JohnWesley. Coalbrook Dale.—This romantic glen, winding- between two vast hills, has beenlong celebrated for its fine bridge over the Severn, where the most extensi
Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . m x. IN ?o <] ^ 9 ® -s -i bs Q N I. OF SHROPSHIRE. [19 opinions, which are defined in a short account of his life and death, by the late Rev. JohnWesley. Coalbrook Dale.—This romantic glen, winding- between two vast hills, has beenlong celebrated for its fine bridge over the Severn, where the most extensive iron-works inEngland are carried on by the means of forges, mills, steam-engines, &c. ; and where,as Mr. Brewer truly remarks, with all their vast machinery, the flaming furnaces andsmoking limekilns form a spectacle horribly sublime, while the stupendous iron arch,striding over the chasm, presents to the mind an idea of that fatal bridge made by Sin andDeath over chaos, from the boundaries of hell to the wall of this now fencch ssworld. The aggregated soil, Death, with his mace petrific, cold, and dry,As with a trident smote, and fixd as firmAs Delos, floating once ; the rest, his look,Bound with Gorgonian rigour not to move,And with asphaltic slime, broad as the gate,Deep to the roots of Hell the gatherd beac
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