Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
    Ebook84 pages55 minutes

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827

    By Various Various

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827

    Read more from Various Various

    Related to The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The 1745 Rising reassessed

      Oct 8, 2022

      Explore a selection of digital history guides in the History Scotland store: https://scot.sh/hsdownload Reminiscences of a Jacobite: The Untold Story of the Rising of 1745 Michael Nevin Birlinn Ltd (2020) pp. 288 Hardback, £25.00; paperback, N/A;

      7 min read

    • Article

      Making Their Mark

      Nov 25, 2021

      Making Their Mark
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Renaissance King

      Apr 26, 2023

      The Renaissance King
      32 min read

    • Article

      Books & co

      Aug 12, 2022

      by Lindsey Fitzharris Many of us have heard of Gillies, the innovative doctor who – beavering away in the secluded grounds of Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, Kent – revolutionised the surgery undertaken to restore the faces of servicemen horrifically

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Lunch Hour Genealogist

      Nov 13, 2020

      The Lunch Hour Genealogist
      4 min read

    • Article

      He Made The World A Better Place

      Jan 12, 2022

      THE name Dr John Coakley Lettsom will be familiar to historians of gardens and of medical practice in Britain, but this is the first major effort to place him in the wider context of enlightened middle-class men of taste and science in Georgian Engla

      5 min read

    • Article

      Faith And Family

      Oct 28, 2021

      Faith And Family
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Best Things In The Worst Times

      Mar 3, 2021

      READERS of Athena may be familiar with the magnificent 17th-century chapel of the Holy Trinity at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, which stands beside the former home of the Shirley family. Above the door is this celebrated—and originally unpunctuate

      2 min read

    • Article

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?

      Feb 20, 2020

      How Dark Were The Dark Ages?
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Past Is A Foreign Country

      Jan 26, 2022

      Penelope Corfield (Yale University Press £25) PENELOPE CORFIELD has set herself an ambitious task: how to distil the complex, overarching narratives of the British-Irish 18th century—from shifting dynasties, multiple national identities and parliam

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Petulant King

      Nov 12, 2022

      The Petulant King
      8 min read

    • Article

      Grace Period

      Jun 9, 2022

      Grace Period
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Sacred And The Profane

      Mar 28, 2024

      The Sacred And The Profane
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Kingdom To Come

      Sep 23, 2022

      The Kingdom To Come
      5 min read

    • Article

      Serious Beauty Of Follies

      Jan 11, 2023

      Serious Beauty Of Follies
      5 min read

    • Article

      Your LETTERS

      Sep 9, 2022

      Your LETTERS
      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Dec 28, 2021

      In Tracy Borman’s feature on Princess Charlotte of Wales, she refers to the whole of the kingdom going into deep mourning for several weeks after the death of the princess. Indeed, the impact was felt as far away as the small parish of Llanfihangel A

      3 min read

    • Article

      Windows On To History

      Sep 30, 2021

      Windows On To History
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Testament to Survival

      Sep 1, 2020

      A Testament to Survival
      7 min read

    • Article

      Crowning Glory

      May 21, 2023

      Crowning Glory
      2 min read

    • Article

      Crowning Glory

      May 21, 2023

      Crowning Glory
      2 min read

    • Article

      Crazy For Cider

      Aug 25, 2021

      JAMES CROWDEN is a poet, shepherd and total cider nut. In this, at least his third book on the subject, there is no other drink but that it suffers from his passion for cider, apple brandy and cider’s delicate, sweet sister, perry—and almost no momen

      5 min read

    Reviews for The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and

      Instruction, No. 276, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 276

      Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827

      Author: Various

      Release Date: May 29, 2005 [EBook #15935]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Garcia and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      BRISTOL CATHEDRAL.

      There is given

      Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent,

      A spirit's feelings, and where he hath leant

      His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power

      And magic in the ruin'd battlement

      For which the palace of the present hour

      Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.

      BYRON.

      The cathedral of Bristol is one of the most interesting relics of monastic splendour which have been spared from the wrecks of desolation and decay. It is dedicated to the holy and undivided Trinity, and is the remains of an abbey or monastery of great magnificence, which was dedicated to St. Augustine. The erection of this monastery was begun in 1140, and was finished and dedicated in 1148, according to the inscription on the tomb of the founder, Robert Fitzharding, the first lord of Berkeley, who, together with others of that illustrious family, are enshrined within these walls. It was also denominated the monastery of the black regular canons of the order of Saint Victor, who are mentioned by Leland as the black canons of St. Augustine within the city walls. By some historians, Fitzharding is represented as an opulent citizen of Bristol; but generally as a younger son or grandson of the king of Denmark, and as the youthful companion of Henry II., who, betaking himself from the sunshine of royal friendship, became a canon of the monastery he himself had founded. In this congenial solitude he died in 1170, aged 75. Such is the outline of the foundation of this structure, and it is one of the most attractive episodes of the early history of England; for the circumstance of a noble exchanging the gilded finery of a court, and the gay companionship of his prince, for the gloomy cloisters of an abbey, and the ascetic duties of monastic life, bespeaks a degree of resolution and self-control which was more probably the result of sincere conviction than of momentary caprice.

      The present cathedral is represented to have been merely the church of the monastery, which was entirely rebuilt in the commencement of the fourteenth century. The style of architecture in the different parts of this cathedral is accurately discriminated in the following account from the pen of Bishop Littleton, F.S.A.:—The lower parts of the chapter house walls, says he, together with the door-way and columns at the entrance of the chapter-house, may be pronounced to be of the age of Stephen, or rather prior to his reign, being fine Saxon architecture. The inside walls of the chapter-house have round ornamental arches intersecting each other. The cathedral appears to be of the same style of building throughout, and in no part older than Edward the First's time, though some writers suppose the present fabric was begun in king Stephen's time; but not a single arch, pillar, or window agrees with the mode which prevailed at that time. The great gateway leading into the College Green is round-arched, with mouldings richly ornamented in the Saxon taste. From this account it appears probable that the chapter-house and gateway are all the present remains of the ancient monastery. The mutilations which the cathedral of Bristol has undergone, are not entirely to be referred to the era of the dissolution of the monasteries, since this structure suffered very considerably during the period of the civil wars. The ruthless soldiers discovered their barbarism by violating the sacred tombs of the dead, and by offering every indignity which they supposed would be considered a profanation of the places which the piety of their ancestors consecrated to religion. At such instances of the violence of civil factions, the sensitive mind shudders with disgust.

      The cathedral of Bristol is rich in monumental tributes to departed worth. Among them is

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1