Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Spanishblood, which has run hundreds of years in their veins, still kindles its darkfire in their eyes, and with the vivacity of the northern mind and the bright colorof the northern skin, these southern qualities mingle in most admirable and 364 PICTURESQ UE IRE LA ND. superb harmony. The idea we form of Italian and Grecian beauty is never re-alized in Greece andIt
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Spanishblood, which has run hundreds of years in their veins, still kindles its darkfire in their eyes, and with the vivacity of the northern mind and the bright colorof the northern skin, these southern qualities mingle in most admirable and 364 PICTURESQ UE IRE LA ND. superb harmony. The idea we form of Italian and Grecian beauty is never re-alized in Greece andItaly, but we find itin Ireland, height-ened and and lips ofthe delicacy andbright tint of car-nation, with snowyteeth, and hair andeyebrows of jet, arewhat we shouldlook for on the pal-ette of Apelles,could we recall thepainter, and reani-mate his far-famedmodels ; and thesevaried charms, unit-ed, fall very com-monly to the shareof the fair Milesianof the upper other lands ofdark eyes, the rare-ness of a fine-grain-ed skin, so necessa-ry to a brunette,makes beauty asrare; but whetherit is the damp soft-ness of the climateor the infusion ofSaxon blood, acoarse skin is al-most never seen inIreland. *. v> Famous Persons and Places, by N. P. Willis, pp. 309-310. Tliis is liuly a liriUiantly suggestive idea of Irish DUBLIN. 365 The Castle contains portraits of the viceroys for nearly two hundred years—the Buckinghams, Westmorelands, Dorsets, Townshends, and nearly every noblefamily in England. A study of these portraits, says the writer of a brilliantpaper on the Castle, in 1866, is full of profit, and in these faces we might almostread the story of the govern-ment of thecountry. Forhere are clever,and weak, andcunning faces ;open, jovial,and unsuspi-cious counte-nances ; thereckless Town-sliend, the free,debauched Rut-land, the diplo-matic Claren-don, the good-natured Eglin-ton, and thegenial Car-lisle. The CityHall, designedby ThomasCooley — wasori
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