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Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review
Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mount Jerome, Harold's Cross. His tomb is placed in Section C of the burial ground, and is a plain obelisk of mountain granite, capped by a monumental urn, and b... more »ears the simple inscription— CHARLES KENDAL BUSHE. JULY 10TH, 1843. " And thus we leave our good Judge to receive a just reward of his integrity from the Judge of Judges, at the great assize of the world." Art. IV.—ENGLISH CONVIVIAL SONG WRITERS. 1. Bibliotheca Madrigaliana.—A Bibliographical Account of the Musical and Poetical Works published in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, under the Titles of Madrigals, Ballets, Ayres, Canzonets. By Edward F. Rimbault, LL.D., F.S.A., 1 vol. 8vo. London : John Russell Smith. 2. A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from Ancient Music Books, MS., and Printed. By Edward P. Rimbault, LL.D., F.S.A., 1 vol. 8vo. London: John Russell Smith. 8. Lyra Urbanica ; or the Social Effusions of the Celebrated Captain Charles Morris of tlie Life Guards, 2 vols. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley. There are, in no modem language, so many songs, beautiful in thought, poetic in inspiration, charming and melodious in structure, as in the English. We possess songs that steal into the heart in its hours of gloom, and brighten all its sorrows like a dream of heaven; songs that sung round the winter fire, bring back the days of youth, and hope, and joy, when those between whose faces and ours, the veil of death is drawn, were beside us in all the pride of health and strength ; songs that call up the dreams of half forgotten joys, and from Fuller's " The Good Judge." the dim past bring back once more the glowing visions of that.. time, when life was but the dawning of a long summer day of bliss, ere we had learned to know with Fenwick, that " you...« less