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...Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of absence in Herefordshire, salmon fishing on the Wye. Gwen and Vivian have a cha...

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...’ breeding, but doubtless of their being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observe... ...in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye, Salmon are in T... ...uthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from Septe... ... to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and in most other rivers, they be in season the six hotter months. Now for the Art of catchin... ...ur flies neat and rightly made, and not too big, serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer: and for winter fly fishing it is as useful as an Al... ...luid air, and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers, and in her glorious career looks with contempt upon those high stee... ...outs and Salmon in season in winter, as ’tis certain there be in the river Wye in Monmouthshire, where they be in season, as The Compleat Angler — Wa...

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...yricalBallads I And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight Up a great river, great as any sea, And ne’er was heard of more: but ’tis supposed, ... ...! that other bards may see, As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me. Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so; Thy quiet soul o... ...on I will be; And I will always be thy guide, Through hollow snows and rivers wide. I’ll build an Indian bower; I know The leaves that make th... ...ers shot from some high crag, The lightning fell, with never a jag A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reach’d the Ship, Yet now t... ...s above TINTERN ABBEY , an , an , an , an , an revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the ba... ...a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the ba... ...a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T revisiting the banks of the WYE during a T our our our our our. . . . . July 13, 1798. July 13, 1798. J... ...rene and blessed mood; In which the affections gently lead us on, 6 The river is not affacted by the tides a few miles above Tintern. 93 Wordswort... ...atings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to t...

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...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...t- able, from mud or from dust, the coast is clear; he can plunge into the river or the pond, without the ceremony of undress- ing, or the fear of wet... ... ome ome ome ome THE NAME “OLD MASTER” A TERROR—COLONEL LLOYD’S PLANTATION—WYE RIVER—WHENCE ITS NAME—POSITION OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFER... ... ome ome ome THE NAME “OLD MASTER” A TERROR—COLONEL LLOYD’S PLANTATION—WYE RIVER—WHENCE ITS NAME—POSITION OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—... ...ITION OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—JOURNEY FROM TUCKAHOE TO WYE RIVER—SCENE ON REACHING OLD MASTER’S—DEPARTURE OF GRANDMOTHER—STRANGE M... ...N OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—JOURNEY FROM TUCKAHOE TO WYE RIVER—SCENE ON REACHING OLD MASTER’S—DEPARTURE OF GRANDMOTHER—STRANGE MEETI... ...seers on the farms belonging to Col. Lloyd. This plantation is situated on Wye river—the river receiving its name, doubtless, from Wales, where the Ll... ...estess, all my inquiring looks to the last. The distance from T uckahoe to Wye river—where my old master lived—was full twelve miles, and the walk was...

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...acquired long ago in Algiers, and this served to give him something of the river- side quality. The day was full of sunshine and the river had a Mayti... ...” He became reflective…. After lunch and coffee he rowed the doctor up the river towards Cliveden. “The last time I was here,” he said, returning to t... ...ce has a floating population of quiet industri- ous soakers. The incurable river man and the river girl end at that.” Dr. Martineau encouraged Sir Ric... ... who drift from one pub to another, drinking, the people who fuddle in the riverside hotels, are the last fugitives of pleasure, trying to forget the ... ... gone, leaving the sky to an increasing multitude of stars. The Maidenhead river wearing its dusky blue draperies and its jewels of light had recovere... ...d shining sand banks. From Chepstow they turned back north along the steep Wye gorge to Tintern, and there at the snug little Beaufort Arms with its p...

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... the banks of a fair running water, called by the folk of that country the Wye. It stood high upon Mount Droac, in the land of Hergin, as testify the ... ...o the mountains, others by the valleys, and many flung themselves into the river, and were drowned miser ably, striving to get them from their foe. T... ...nter therein their troubles would be at an end. As they strove to ford the river T eign, Cador, the huntsman, came winding upon their slot. The Saxons... ...e and deep is this fair mere. From the hills and valleys round about sixty rivers fall therein, and making together one sweet water, pass swiftly by a... ...all therein, and making together one sweet water, pass swiftly by a single river to the sea. Sixty islands lie upon this water, the haunt and home of ... ... walls, holding the town so close that food might not enter whether by the river or the gates. Arthur shut the city fast for more than a month, since ...

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...he Severn fills; 5 The salt sea water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. The Wye is hush’d nor moved along,... ...ys that grow to something strange, In walking as of old we walk’d Beside the river’s wooded reach, The fortress, and the mountain ridge, The cataract ... ...l, 5 And maidens with me: distant hills From hidden summits fed with rills A river sliding by the wall. The hall with harp and carol rang. They sang o...

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... great barns and ancient trees, its pools and ponds and shining threads of rivers; its flower-starred hedgerows, its orchards and woodland patches, it... ...f Virginia, like an England grown very big and slovenly, the woods and big river sweeps of Penn- sylvania, the trim New England landscape, a little bl... ...fore and it seemed simple and wonder- ful. When they turned they found the river too narrow for tacking and the tide running out like a sluice. They b... ... him to Stratford-on-Avon and Shrewsbury and the Welsh moun- tains and the Wye and a lot of places like that, for a really gorgeous, careless, illimit... ...I cannot understand, at least a tithe of the pleasure he had taken in that river. But he read all sorts of things; a book of old Keltic stories collec... ...f a train, or wait for a warm night, and then fall into some smooth, broad river. Not so bad as sitting down to a dentist, not nearly so bad. And he w...

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...and Charles the Great Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, K... ...e Of France, and others .] KING OF FRANCE : ’Tis certain he hath pass’d the river Somme. Constable: And if he be not fought withal, my lord, Let us ... ...r, not in theirs. March to the bridge; it now draws toward night: Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves, And on to morrow, bid them march away. [Exe... ...cedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is c... ...ver in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the othe... ...d Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but ’tis all one, ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and t... ...onor; For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman. FLUELLEN: All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty’s Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell y...

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...ders. Bridgefield House stood on the top of a steep slope lead- ing to the river Dun, with a high arched bridge and a mill below it. From the bridge p... ...s had stone walls separating it from the paddock, which sloped down to the river, and was a good deal broken by ivy-covered rocks. Adjoining the stabl... ...m buildings and barns, for there were several fields for tillage along the river-side, and the mill and two more farms were the property of the Bridge... ...at the inheritance was a very fair one, wedged in, as it were, between the river and the great Chase of Sheffield, up whose stately avenue the riding ... ...s stood on the tongue of land in the valley, formed by the junction of the rivers Sheaf and Dun, with towers at all the gateways, enclosing a space of... ... ready coming in sight, and by and by they would look into the valley. The Wye, after coming down one of those lovely deep ravines to be found in all ...

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...y with the description. In one picture the machine swings down towards the river, and the tower of Fulham church appears below it through a gap in the... ...ley of the Stour opens the Downs in the north to interminable hills beyond Wye. All Romney Marsh lies southward at one’s feet, Dymchurch and Romney an... ...gs; they turn ‘em out as beavers build dams, and with no more sense of the rivers they’re going to divert and the lands they’re going to flood! “ As w...

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... hospitality. Some club, however, or tavern per- haps, in the summer, some river bank would be chosen as the scene of these festivities. T o a few,—if... ...of pleasure,— in his own brougham. But on this occasion he walked down the river side, and then walked from the Mansion House into a dingy little cour... ... Sir Alured Wharton was a baronet, with a handsome old family place on the Wye, in Hertfordshire, whose forefathers had been baronets since baronets w... ... a hazy retrospect of past glories, and a delight in the beauty of his own river, his own park, and his own house. Sir Alured, with all his foibles, a... ...shaded, lonely path, which for half a mile ran along the very marge of the Wye at the bottom of the park. And then he went on to speak other words whi... ...s the park up to the house, and left Arthur Fletcher standing alone by the river’s bank. And so by degrees the blow had come full home to him. He had ... ...me time.’ ‘ And therefore one has to be chopped up, like a reed out of the river, as the poet said, and yet not give sweet music after- wards.’ The Du... ..., Everett Wharton, should have been as much thought of on the banks of the Wye as Arthur Fletcher. He had been asked down to Wharton Hall,—but he had ... ...ways have been!’ And she remembered that farewell down by the banks of the Wye. ‘Y ou will always have one,— one besides him,—who will love you best i...

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... “I’ve always had an affection for that place. The house is on gravel; the river has trout; there’s a splendid sweep of grass for the horses to exerci... ...o settle. I, Arabella, know nothing of trout. I, Cornelia, know nothing of river- beds. I, Adela, know nothing of engineering. But, we are persuaded, ... ..., know nothing of engineering. But, we are persuaded, the latter, that the river running for a mile through Besworth grounds may be deepened: we are p... ...ning a great deal about that business, lately?” “What business?” “Love.” A river of blood overflowed her fair cheeks. “How long has this been?” his vo... ...m. Keen scent of hay, crossing the dark air, met Emilia as she entered the river-meadow. A little more, and she saw the white weir-piles shining, and ... ...frost to where a white curtain of mist hung across the wooded hills of the Wye. 377 George Meredith CHAPTER XLVI EMILIA was in skilful hands, and aga...

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... north of Easton, in Talbot county, and is situated on the border of Miles River. The principal products raised upon it were tobacco, corn, and wheat.... ...longing to him. The names of the farms nearest to the home plantation were Wye Town and New Design. “Wye Town” was under the overseership of a man nam... ...et, and with the highest hopes of future happiness. We sailed out of Miles River for Baltimore on a Saturday morning. I remember only the day of the w... ... and finally, after having nearly reached the desired spot,—after swimming rivers, encountering wild beasts, sleep- ing in the woods, suffering hunger...

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...ttle hand could move. Well, and so the tale of her swim across the Shannon river and back drove the young Earl of Cresset straight over to Ireland to ... ... a storm of wind and lightning at black midnight by the banks of a flooded river, which was formerly our comparison for terrible situa- tions, it was ... ...d valleys were like night and morning taking hands down the sweep of their rivers. Immense was the range of vision scudding the peaks and over the ill... ... villages and spires, and lower finally to the whole valley of the foaming river, field and river seeming in imagination rolled out from the hand of t... ...iful English faces. On the level of the valley, where they met the torrent-river, walking side by side with him, she ventured an inquiry: ‘En- glish g... ...the journey alone: and he clouded the yacht for Fleetwood with talk of the Wye and the Usk, Hereford and the Malvern Hills elliptical over the plains....

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...ath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye And sandy bottom’d Severn have I sent him Bootless home and weather bea... ... north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land A huge...