 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 482 pages
...woods. Jlere are the most considerable iron works in England : the noise of the Surges, mills, &c. with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces, with the burning coal, and the smoke of the lime-kilos are altogether horribly sublime. Two beuutiful bridges of cast-iron,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...hanging woods. Here are the most considerable iron works in England : the noise of the forges, mills, &c. with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces, with the burning coal, and the smoke of the lime-kilns are altogether horribly sublime. Two beautiful bridges of cast-iron,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...carrying on, seems to realise the ancient fable of thwCyclops. " The noise of the forges, mills, &c." observes Mr. Young, " with all their vast machinery,...are altogether horridly sublime." To complete the peculiaries of this spot, a bridge, entirely constructed of iron, is here thrown over the Severn. In... | |
 | John Aikin - 1818 - 546 pages
...thickly covered and forming most beautiful sheets of hanging-woods. The noise of the forges, mills, &c. with all their vast machinery ; the flames bursting...burning of coal, and the smoke of the limekilns ; are all together horribly sublime." A bridge entirely made of cast iron, which has been lately thrown across... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...The noise of the forces, mills, Sec." says Mr. Voting, " with all their vast machinery, the Haines bursting from the furnaces, with the burning of coal, and the smoke of the limekilns, are altogether horribly sublime." Two bridges entirely made of cast-iron, which bave been thrown over the Severn,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...add much to the natural romantic scenery of the place. 'The noise of the forges, mills, 8tc. (says Mr. Young) with all their vast machinery ; the flames...furnaces, with the burning of coal, and the smoke of the lime kilns, are altogether horribly sublime.' The iron bridge was erected in 1779; the road over it,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1836 - 194 pages
...said, " with all their vast machinery, the flame bursting from the furnaces, with the burning of the coal, and the smoke of the limekilns, are altogether...the Severn. In one place it has parted, and a chasm has formed ; but such THE AUTHOR. is its firm basis, that the fissure has neither injured its strength... | |
 | 1870 - 526 pages
...and forming most beautiful sheets of hanging woods. The noise of the forges, mills, furnaces, etc., with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces, with the burning coal, and the smoke of the limekilns, jre altogether horribly sublime." Soon after it was ascertained... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1883 - 408 pages
...and forming most beautiful sheets of hanging woods. The noise of the forges, mills, furnaces, etc., with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces, with the burning coal, and the smoke of the limekilns, are altogether horribly sublime." Soon after it was ascertained... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1891 - 420 pages
...and forming most beautiful sheets of hanging woods. The noise of the forges, mills, furnaces, etc., with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces, with the burning coal, and the smoke of the limekilns, are altogether horribly sublime." Soon after it was ascertained... | |
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Indeed too beautiful to be much in unison with that variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom: the noise of the forges, mills, &c. with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of... 
