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Title: Romantic Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), 1871- McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935, joint author
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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rriff is all that Thackeray pictured itin prose. It is more than that, — more, in-deed, than is within the power of words todescribe, though its beauty is somewhat ofthe stage-scenery and landscape-painting order. Travellers from all the corners of the earthhave raved over its charm; but they all failutterly to describe the insinuating peacefulnessof its mirrored sky and emerald-clad hills.No one but the artist can at all successfullyportray its moods: at times brilliant with sun-shine and verdure, and again, sombre and mist-laden with the rains of autumn; but never, orseldom ever, even in the most abnormal win-ter, bare or bleak. Indeed, this region, to-gether with many others in Ireland, has been,by many eminent scientists, proclaimed one ofnatures most famous sanitoria. Prince Puckler Muskau, in his tour of Ire-land, wrote thus of Glengarriff: The cli-mate is most favourable for vegetation, moistand so warm that not only azaleas and rho-dodendra, and all sorts of evergreens stand
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Glengarriff and Bantry Bay 53 abroad through the winter, but, in favourableaspect, even camellias, dates, pomegranates,magnolias, etc., attain their fullest beauty.Lord Macaulay and Sir David Wilkie calledit the fairest spot in the British Isles. The formers stanzas, as given below, areperhaps not of his usual heroic order, and may,once and again, appear unduly sentimental, butthey are emphatically true and appreciative: Hail, charming scene ! GlengarrifFs bay,Yon mountains, streams, and dells,The Atlantic waters foaming spray,Creations wonder tells. Hail, Bantrys noble harbour deep,Where Britains fleet may ride,And giant ships, in safetys keep,May in or outward glide. Thy glorious waters, green and gemmed,With beauteous islands crowned,While the enchanting scene is hemmedWith purple hills around. At mornings dawn or evenings shadeThy glorys still the same:And ever will be so arrayed,With English tourists fame. 54 Romantic Ireland An enthusiastic American, who subscribedhimself as fro

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