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Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland (1864)

Howitt, William, 1792-1879 · London : A.W. Bennett · leaf 199

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DRYBURGH ABBEY. 187 1 deemed fuch nooks the fweeteft fliade The fun in all his round furveyed ; And ftill I thought that Shattered tower The mightieft work of human power ; And marvelled, as the aged hind With fome ftrange tale bewitchd my mind, Of forayers, who, with headlong force, Down from that… … NE of the moft interefting places in Irelandis the Rock of Cafhel, in Tipperary. Itftands boldly in the midft of a vaft cham-pagne, crowned by a clufler of ruins whichunite fome of the moft attradlive reminis-cences, and fome of the moft exquifiteecclefiaftical archite6lure in the ifland.The…

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