The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue)

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue)

We have the pleasure of presenting to the readers of the MIRROR, the completion of our notices of these very elegant publications; and in pursuance of the plan of our former Supplement, we are enabled to assemble within the present sheet the characteristics of eight works, whilst our quotations include fourteen prose tales and sketches, and poetical pieces, of great merit. The above engraving and its pendant are copied from the Literary Souvenir, specially noticed in our last Supplement. The original is a drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. and the plate in the Souvenir is by J. Pyeboth artists of high excellence in their respective departments: But among all its united trophies of art and nature, there is not one more brightly endowed with picturesque beauty, or romantic [pg 370] association, than the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. When the eye of our own Childe Harold rested upon its "shattered wall," and when the pencil of Turner immortalized its season of desolation, it had been smitten in the pride of its strength by the iron glaive of war: and its blackened fragments and stupendous ruins had their voice for the heart of the moralist, as well as their charm for the inspired mind of genius. But now that military art hath knit those granite ribs anew,now that the beautiful eminence rears once more its crested head, like a sculptured Cybele, with a coronet of towers,new feelings, and an altered scale of admiration wait upon its glories. Once more it uplifts its giant height beside the Rhine, repelling in Titan majesty the ambition of France; once more, by its united gifts of natural position and scientific aid, it appears prepared to vindicate its noble appellation of "the broad stone of honour." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 10730
Author: Various
Release Date: Jan 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English