The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14782088212)

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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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deemed from sin and death, to shineEternally above this world of fears,W here Christ himself, thy king, hath wiped away all tears.— Farewell, thou mouldering relic of the past! An hour unineetly was not spent with thee :Events, as rapid as the autumns blast, Have hurried onward, since twas thine to see The fairest flower of England pensively Expand and blossom, neath thy rugged shade ; And here thou standst, while circling seasons flee,A monumental pile of that sweet maid,Whom men of bloody hands within the charnel laid. Farewell! Farewell!—Again a long farewell, With lingering footstep and unwilling tongue,I bid to thee,—thou most secluded cell, In my poor lay too ill and weakly sung ! But could my lyre to bolder hands have rung,A worthier tribute justly thou mightst claim :— Thou, with unfading wreaths around thee flung,By mystic influence of a deathless name,The brightest and the best upon the scrolls of Fame. NOTICES OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. RODELEY TEMPLE, LEICESTERSHIRE.
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Not harsh and rugged are the ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Jos. Warton. Tii e industrious and careful researches of the anti-quaries of the last and present century directed chieflyamong- the castles and larger edifices, military andecclesiastical, common in this country, have beenattended with considerable and deserved success;—but although so much has been performed with respectto the more magnificent architectural remains, andsuch great light has been thrown by those ingeniouspersons upon what may be called the public archi-tecture of our Saxon and Norman progenitors, yetthere remain a number of less important but, never- theless, interesting edifices, towards the elucidationof which little attention has hitherto been directed. Among these secondary structures, as they maybe called, we may instance the Preceptories or Dwel-lings of the Knights Templars, as worthy of theattention of the reader, and which we propose tomake the subject of this paper;—hoping, by