Category: Travel Writing
Authors, you know, of greatest fame, Thro’ modesty suppress their name; And, wou’d you with me to reveal What these superior Wits conceal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All my ambition is, I own, To profit, and to please, unknown.
Andrew Windsor, to the right of the fire-place; _Kneller_. general in the reign of Queen Ann, serving in the 28th regiment of foot Thomas Windsor, to the left, who served in _Kn...
7. Part 7the elegant seat of Lord Uxbridge, situated in the Isle of Anglesey, and distant about six miles from Caernarvon: if the wind and tide prove favourable, the picturesque scenery...
10. Part 10Such a bustle pervaded the whole town, of parties assembling here, for an aquatic expedition to Monmouth, the following day, that with difficulty we obtained a small room: from...
3. Part 3is much resorted to, during the summer months, for bathing. It stands on a rock facing Caermarthen Bay: the bold Promontory of the Monkstone Head to the North, and St. Catherine...
5. Part 5“Ah! little think the gay licentious proud Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; A...
9. Part 9“The chirk of St. Oswalde (says Leland) is a very faire leddid chirch with a great tourrid steple, but it standith without the New Gate; so that no chirch is there within the to...
4. Part 4Description can scarcely suggest the full magnificence and beauty of the saunter from hence to Cardigan: the valley, about two miles in extent, seemed to possess all that Nature...
8. Part 8“King Edward the Fourth was besieged in Denbigh castelle, and ther it was pactid between king Henry’s men and hym that he should with life departe the reaulme, never to returne....
6. Part 6With reluctance we left this romantic situation; and, according to the directions of our conductress, soon found ourselves in the turnpike road to Tan-y-bwlch, understanding tha...
1. Part 1Authors, you know, of greatest fame, Thro’ modesty suppress their name; And, wou’d you with me to reveal What these superior Wits conceal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All my amb...
11. Part 11some most noble rocks, “nature’s proud bastions,” opened upon us, to the left, grander than any we had hitherto admired, and which, we had previously determined, were inconceiva...
13. Part 13{39} The Pedestrian will not possibly find time to examine the Ruins of Carew Castle, in this day’s route, but will find it more convenient to visit it in his way from Tenby to...
12. Part 12_Route_. _Counties_. _Miles_. _Best Inns_. _Objects most _Page_. worth Attention_.— _Rivers and noted Bridges_. Cheltenham Spa to _Gloucester_ Plough Hotel Pump-room-walk— 1 Sea...