Recollections of A. N. Welby Pugin, And His Father, Augustus Pugin; With Notices of Their Works
Recollections of A. N. Welby Pugin, And His Father, Augustus Pugin; With Notices of Their Works
Purcell, Edmund Sheridan, 1824?-1899
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The following lines, droll and clever, written by Mr. M'Cann, an Irishman, were first circulated privately, but at length got into * Notes and Queries,' and were subsequently copied into the 'Buader:' SONG ON PUGIN'S 'CONTRASTS/ Oh ! have you seen the work just out By Pugin, the great builder ? ' Architectural Contrasts ' he's made out Poor Protestants to bewilder. The Catholic Church, she never knew — Till Mr. Pugin taught her, That orthodoxy had to do . At all with bricks and mortar. But now ...it's dear to one and all, Since he's published his lecture. No church is Catholic at aU Without Gothic architecture. In £akct^ he quite turns up his nose At any style that's racent. The Gracian, too, he plainly shows Is wicked and ondacent. There's not a bit of pious taste Ivor since the Reformation ; TwBB Harry the Eighth, the nasty baste, That introduced the Gracian. When they denied the truth outright Of Transubstantiation, They built them in the Composite — That great abomination. i2 lie RECOLLECTIONS OF Next thing their frien*s to build dozing pews In the most systematic way go ; They'd be kilt, they say, the other way, With rheumatics and lumbago.
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