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ROSLYN CHAPEL.
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detached from the upper part of the chapel, and surmounted by a dome. In referring
to this plate, I must beg the reader to be very indulgent in criticising it, for the
engraver has unfortunately failed in producing the effect and details of the original
drawing. The windows are unglazed.
St. George's Chapel is regularly appropriated to collegiate service, and is also
the place of installation of the Knights of the Garter. Hence, though it is de-
prived of all the grand and pompous monastic processions that formerly apper-
tained to it, and to the ceremonies of which it was intended; and although
England is happily relieved from the military and active services of Knights of the
Round Table, Garter, &c. yet the latter retain a name and honorary rank in the
country, and at public installations display much of the heraldric pomp and gran-
deur of ancient times. Much more might be said of the monuments, ornaments,
persons interred, and architecture of this elegant edifice; but, even then we
must coincide with Otway in asserting that St. George's Chapel is
"Too noble to be well describ'd or prais'd."
Windsor Castle, a Poem.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL.
iloslpn Chapel*
SCOTLAND.
It is both curious and interesting to ascertain the precise and comparative state of
the arts, as they have been formerly manifested at the same time in different countries,
and even in distant parts of our own nation. Whilst the inhabitants of one kingdom
"Were advanced to the highest pitch of civilization and refinement, those of another,
even a neighbouring state, were so much devoted to warfare, or trade, or resigned
to slothfulness ; that art, literature, and elegance, were wholly neglected by them,
* The name of this place is variously spelt, and differently derived: Roslin, Rosskellyn, Roselyn, &c. Mr.
Scott—notes to the Lay of the Last Minstrel—says the etymology is " Rosslinne, the promontory of the linn or
Waterfall." With deference to this learned poet, I think the derivation admits of, and bears a slight variation
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detached from the upper part of the chapel, and surmounted by a dome. In referring
to this plate, I must beg the reader to be very indulgent in criticising it, for the
engraver has unfortunately failed in producing the effect and details of the original
drawing. The windows are unglazed.
St. George's Chapel is regularly appropriated to collegiate service, and is also
the place of installation of the Knights of the Garter. Hence, though it is de-
prived of all the grand and pompous monastic processions that formerly apper-
tained to it, and to the ceremonies of which it was intended; and although
England is happily relieved from the military and active services of Knights of the
Round Table, Garter, &c. yet the latter retain a name and honorary rank in the
country, and at public installations display much of the heraldric pomp and gran-
deur of ancient times. Much more might be said of the monuments, ornaments,
persons interred, and architecture of this elegant edifice; but, even then we
must coincide with Otway in asserting that St. George's Chapel is
"Too noble to be well describ'd or prais'd."
Windsor Castle, a Poem.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL.
iloslpn Chapel*
SCOTLAND.
It is both curious and interesting to ascertain the precise and comparative state of
the arts, as they have been formerly manifested at the same time in different countries,
and even in distant parts of our own nation. Whilst the inhabitants of one kingdom
"Were advanced to the highest pitch of civilization and refinement, those of another,
even a neighbouring state, were so much devoted to warfare, or trade, or resigned
to slothfulness ; that art, literature, and elegance, were wholly neglected by them,
* The name of this place is variously spelt, and differently derived: Roslin, Rosskellyn, Roselyn, &c. Mr.
Scott—notes to the Lay of the Last Minstrel—says the etymology is " Rosslinne, the promontory of the linn or
Waterfall." With deference to this learned poet, I think the derivation admits of, and bears a slight variation