# A description of Killarney

Author: Dunn

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76556

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+description+of+Killarney+Dunn&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To convey to the fancy a lively representation of substantial visible forms, is deemed rather the province of that artist who speaks to the eye, than of the mere verbal describer. Yet so limited are the powers of the pencil, that by it, the same object can only be represented, in one moment of its existence, and under a single point of view; whereas description ranges in a wider field, commands the several changes which time, in its silent lapse, draws along with it; exhibits things in all the different lights, and positions, in which they can be viewed; discovers new beauties in effects from unravelling their causes; traces under the mouldering ruin, stately temples, domes, and palaces,...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-description-of-killarney-76556/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-description-of-killarney-76556/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-description-of-killarney-76556/chapters/3/index.md)