. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 143 elegiac stanza expressive of the virtues and fruitful ministry of the deceased, and of thebright reward into which he had entered by death. The coup doeil presented by the choir of Carlisle cathedral is eminently beautiful,using that term in a restricted sense: beautiful to those who feel a glow of piety withinthem, whilst contemplating the sacred fane, rendered venerable by age—made hal
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 143 elegiac stanza expressive of the virtues and fruitful ministry of the deceased, and of thebright reward into which he had entered by death. The coup doeil presented by the choir of Carlisle cathedral is eminently beautiful,using that term in a restricted sense: beautiful to those who feel a glow of piety withinthem, whilst contemplating the sacred fane, rendered venerable by age—made hallowed byits sacred uses: beautiful to those who are willing to admit into the temple a sublimegrandeur, suitable to its character, and calculated to impress the mind with awful feeling, to calm the troubled breast, and woo the weary to profound repose. Every arch, everycolumn, refers to ages past, and stands an impressive memorial of forgotten subdued and many-coloured light that falls from the east window produces a tran-quillizing effect, which, added to the expressive silence that reigns in the building,may, without enthusiasm, be said to
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