The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14595930207)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ce Of what they would have been, or were;Forgotten in their natal place Their virtues, and their lineage fair :Forgotten too, perchance, the crimeThat staind the annals of their time ! To twilight bat, to midnight owl,A dwelling place for many a year, As stormy clouds above thee scowl,Methinks the doom of all I hear ! The loves, the joys, the hopes, the fears,The pride, the pomp, of living man, (Een as thy glory disappears) Shall perish with his fleeting span ; While mute, unhonourd, and forgot, Another race shall know him not.* Sad is the lesson :—but more wise By sadness made, may it be mineTo seek a mansion in the skies, Where changeless suns for ever shine !Though low my lot,—-ym path unknown To monarchs gaze,—no trump of fameTo sound above my funeral stone The transient honours of a name;Mine be the hopes of endless day,When worlds themselves have passd away! 31st Oct. 1832. For the little that is known of Compton Castle, see p. 273. BLARNEY CASTLE, COUNTY OF CORK, IRELAND.
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Who, between the Lands End and John o GroatsHouse, has not heard of the Groves of Blarney ?—and where, in green Erin itself, shall we find a spotmore celebrated ? Even our Woman-kind, can-not plead ignorance of its renown; although, thanksxo feminine delicacy,—and peradventure in some de- gree, to the peculiar locality of the mysterious relic,—they seek not the adventitious aid of the BlarneyStone to augment their native attractions. Not so,however, in sorrow be it spoken, the conduct oftheir male associates; for few visitants, indeed, ofthat sex, ever mount the battlements of Blarney THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 305 Castle, without invoking, by a daring salute, thehidden genii of the Stone to endow them with asmoothly-flattering tongue ; — or, in other words,with the faculty of lying without a blush ! Blarney Castle, the property of the Jeffereysfamily, occupies a pleasant and picturesque situation,between three and four miles north-west of Cork, inthe district of