The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)
Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 282
N VALLEY. glens^ and ruins^ by amateurs of tlie pencil and pro- fessors of the art^ are found on the walls of our exhi- bitions; but every one who has made his pilgrimage in person to these rivers^ and derived inspiration from their presence^ knows how powerless the highest efforts of landscape-art… … VILLAGE OF MATHERNE. bending of buttercups, and the nodding of trees. Here, for instance, on the right bank of the Wye, is a little rural picture set in green ; it is the pretty village of Matherne, with the ruins of the episcopal palace of the former bishops of Llandaff. The name is said to have…
Severn River Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
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