Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 48 of 120
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# Analysis This is a page of **running prose text** from the middle of a serialized narrative titled "A Month's Tour" (page 42). The visible text describes a social visit: an introduction to a celebrated Dublin beauty named Miss B—, praised for her physical appearance, followed by a visit on the 26th to a royal hospital for disabled soldiers. The narrator details the hospital's founding by Charles II, its first stone laid by the Duke of Ormond, and notes its spacious hall decorated with valuable paintings, including a work by Rubens depicting Sir Cecil Wicke, with four hundred stands of arms displayed on the walls.
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—_ 42 A MONTHs TOUR. B—— junior introduced us to Mifs B—, the celebrated Dublin beauty, whom few ‘behold with impunity. The admirable proportion of her form, and delicacy of her complexion, can fcarcely be furpafs’d even in the. fineft imagination. On the 26th we vifited the royal hofpital, a very munificent eftablifhment for the re- _ lief of fuperanuated foldiers, or fuch are otherwife difabled in the fervice of their King and country. It was eretted: by Charles the Second, and the firft ftone of it laid by the Duke of Ormond, who was then Lord Lieutenant. Here is a fine fpacious hall, adorned with feveral valu- able paintings, particularly a figure of Sir Cecil Wicke, executed by Rubens. On , the wall are hung four hundred ftands of arms, comicbooks.com