# Fisher's drawing room scrap book

FISHER'S
DRAWING ROOM SCRAP-BOOK.
With Poetical Illustrations
BY
L. E. L.
THE PRINCESS VICTORIA
Victoria
Dedicated by special permission to
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
ENGRAVED BY T WOOLNOTH, FROM A PAINTING BY ANTHONY STEWART
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FISHER, SON AND JACKSON, LONDON, 1831.
FISHER'S
DRAWING ROOM
SCRAP BOOK;
WITH POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
L. E. L.
Gifts are the beads of Memory's rosary,
Whereon she reckons kind remembrances
Of friends and old affections.
Christmas, you are welcome here;
Christmas comes but once a year.
Come—as in the good old time.
With gift, and song, aod tale, and rhyme.
LONDON
FISHER, SON, AND JACKSON, NEWGATE STREET.
1832.
INTRODUCTION.
Though a preface be the first page seen in a volume, it is always the last page written. By that time, the golden age of hope has darkened into the iron age of fear. The ideas that seemed at first so delightful, are grown common, by passing through the familiarizing process of writing, printing, and correcting. A proof-sheet is a terrible reality; and you look upon your work with much the same feeling as people look upon the prospect to which they are accustomed they are much more alive to its faults than its beauties.
For the Volume now offered to the public, I must plead for indulgence. It is not an easy thing to write illustrations to prints, selected rather for their pictorial excellence than their poetic capabilities; and mere description is certainly not the most popular species of composition. I have endeavoured to give as much variety as possible, by the adoption of any legend, train of reflection, &c. which the subject could possibly suggest; and, with the same view, have inserted the two poems marked "C," for which I am indebted to a friend, whose kindness I gratefully acknowledge. A book like this is a literary luxury, addressed chiefly to a young and gentler class of readers: may I therefore hope, that the judgment I seek to interest will err on the side of kindly allowance.
There are three portraits, to which only brief prose notices are affixed—the days of poetical flattery are as much past, as those of hoops and minuets. What the genius of Dryden could not redeem, I may be excused from even attempting.
L.E.L.
LIST OF PLATES.
* The Princess Victoria
* Pile of Fouldrey Castle
* Carrick-a-Rede, Ireland
* The Palace of the Seven Stories
* St. Michael's Mount
* The Deaf Schoolmaster
* Storrs, Windermere Lake
* The Pirate's Song Off the Tiger Island
* The Upper Lake of Killarney
* Hurdwar
* The Black-Rock Fort and Light-House
* The Taj-Mahal at Agra
* Lismore Castle
* The Volcano of Ki-rau-e-a
* The Grass-Rope Bridge, at Teree
* Restormel Castle
* The Water Palace, Mandoo
* Lines of Curran's Picture
* The Vale of Lonsdale
* Fowey Harbour, and Polruan Castle
* Skeleton Group in the Rameswur, Caves of Ellora
* Furness Abbey
* Benares
* The African
* Curraghmore
* The Carclaze Tin-Mine, Cornwall
* El Wuish
* The House in Which Roscoe was Born
* The Jumma Musjid
* The Giant's Causeway
* The City of Delhi
* Blarney Castle
* The Valley of Rocks
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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