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...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...its own cell divisions. Secondly, this cynicism that a woman, spellbound in romance, robbed a man of his sperm to produce a baby by which to devote h... ...t dressed. She turned on the television but realizing it was Sunday and that church programming had usurped her exorcise regimen she felt disappointed... ... fenced in nice. You know that. You will be happy there. The house is near a Catholic school. You will go there each day with those monkeys of hers. M... ...to not go that far. She drove on and on and soon she could see the roof of a church. In an hour, she thought, there would be the culmination of activi... ...ause one to be as steady and seemingly everlasting as those very walls. The church would shelter the convictions of the myth reinforcers who actively... ...hurch?" Gabriele thought of the Wicca services. They always reminded her of Catholic masses but without the Eucharist. However, they tapped into a m... ...he walls any more than usual." Following the service the boys were sent to a Catholic version of Sunday school and she was paraded in front of a bunch...

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...own to it and scud- ding. I was thinking what a vile day it was, when she ap- peared. Her hair blew in the wind with changes of colour; her garments m... ...uses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets and gargoyl... ... al- ready on the door to go. Perhaps this attitude emboldened me to profit by the last seconds of our interview; and it certainly rendered her escape... ... at last upon the point of dis- covery fell of his own hand. And the nightmare at the cross- roads was the regular punishment, according to the laws o... ...ed to be astonished, or so susceptible of rendering the emotion of surprise; and it tempted me as an open piano tempts the musician. ‘Nothing of the s... ...ld’s imagination; and he can fling himself into business with that superior earnestness that properly be- longs to play. And Rowley was a boy made to ... ..., a little manner I had of shrugging the shoulders; and I may say it was by observing it in him that I first discovered it in myself. One day it came ... ...red it in myself. One day it came out by chance that I was of the Catholic religion. He became plunged in thought, at which I was gently glad. Then su... ...’ he broke out. ‘You must teach me it, Mr. Anne—I mean, Ramornie.’ I dissuaded him: alleging that he would find me very im- perfectly informed as to t...

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.................................... 154 I. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. ............................. 154 II. ON SIR ... ... THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT, ONLY SON OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, AT THE CHURCH OF STANTON HARCOURT, IN OXFORDSHIRE, 1720. ............................ ...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...cendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly af... ...taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Twyford, near Winchester; and while there, read Ogil... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a... ...composure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A li... ...ure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A little b... ...erenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A little before his...

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... a defined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mer... ... how could things go on with a rogue like Alexander VI. at the head of the Church, and a mere huntsman like himself at the head of the Empire.” His bo... ...tion were wanting to have made him a Charles, or an Alfred, the Great. The romance of his marriage with the heiress of Burgundy is one of the best kno... ... by Luther’s arguments; and, indeed, he had long been conscious of need of Church re- form, though his plans took the grotesque form of getting himsel... ...emed no novelty to an heir of the doctrine of Tauler, and of the veritably Catholic divines of old times. The idea is of the supposed course of a thou... ...gh the earlier times of the Reformation, glad of the hope of cleansing the Church, but hoping to cleanse, not to break away from her—a hope that Luthe... ...as never been done to the men who feared to loose their hold on the Church Catholic as the one body to which the promises were made. Their loyalty has... ...Eberhard is as much a king on his own rock as Kaiser Fritz ever was of the Romans, and more too, for I never could find out that they thought much of ... ...es have learnt from 266 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest babyhood of the true Catholic doctrine. Yet I may not call my son’s faith such as the Kaisar’s S...

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... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ... was tall, strong and somewhat stiff; he was also lean and brown. He was not romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his physiognomy... ... as to hope Miss Archer might know them well. One of the brothers was in the Church, settled in the family living, that of Lockleigh, which was a heav... ...bre Florentine streets, resting a while in the thicker dusk of some historic church or the vaulted chambers of some dispeopled convent. She went to th... ...ad been agreed among our friends that they would drive together to the great church. After lunch, an hour before the carriage came, Lord Warburton pre... ...It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as ... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we...

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... wide- branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick 6 Ivanhoe carpet of ... ...traction, savouring but too much of the vanities of the world. This worthy churchman rode upon a well-fed ambling mule, whose furniture was highly dec... ...ng much notice of the other members of the cavalcade. The companion of the church dignitary was a man past forty , thin, strong, tall, and muscular; a... ... with the high tone which he exerted in setting forth the authority of the church and of the priesthood, impressed them no less with an opinion of his... ...pon the appointed morning to the place of combat. The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the ... ...scord that Richard’s repeated victories had been ren- dered fruitless, his romantic attempts to besiege Jerusalem disappointed, and the fruit of all t... ... darting its rays through a bower of jessamine. But Ivanhoe was too good a Catholic to retain the same class of feelings towards a Jewess. 258 Ivanho... ... as a hatchment over the champion’s dim and mouldering tomb—is the defaced sculpture of the inscription which the ignorant monk can hardly read to the... ...mples of atrocity. Every reader must recollect, that after the fall of the Catholic Church, and the Presbyterian Church Government had been establishe...

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...nt to the feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye of the mo... ...oughtless. 5 Thomas de Quincey According to the discipline of the English church, the un- baptized are buried with “maimed rites,” shorn of their ob-... ...nd sternly denied that “sweet and solemn farewell,” by which otherwise the church expresses her final charity with all men; and not only so, but they ... ...her husband’s family, beyond the prom- ises of fairy land or the dreams of romance; for it is certain that to her chiefly this family was also indebte... ...er, it is believed that Shakspeare wrote nothing more after this exquisite romantic drama. With respect to the remainder of his personal history, Dr. ... ... T rue; but prodigious as it is, there is really nothing between them. The Roman stage, at least the tragic stage, as is well known, was put out, as b... ... bead-roll of thoughts the deepest, subtilest, most pathetic, and yet most catholic and universally intelligible; the most characteristic, also, and a... ...y, that he became a sincere and most 76 Biographical Essays disinterested Catholic. He returned to England; married a Catholic young widow; and becam... ...stration of the text. From his tu- ition Pope was at length dismissed to a Catholic school at T wyford, near Winchester. The selection of a school in ...

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...ytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...orfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing of the fi... ... In the idol temples of Yucatan -- A battle with the natives -- Conversions to Catholicism -- A terrible slaughter of Indians -- Indian maidens distri... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...ot only mis-shapen, but of such enormous size that from their bones and ribs a church had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish ... ..., which they brought into their service and placed as sentinels to guard their churches and grave-yards, and cattle, and other possessions. He asserts... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...a son of Erik, returned to Norway in 999, and finding his country converted to Catholicism, he also embraced the faith, after which he took a priest w... ...en many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Catholics had sent priests to instruct the early Norse settlers of that...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...ngly, so the ‘glorious army of martyrs’ had, for the most part, joined the Church with the expectation that they should have to confess the faith, and... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...h crime, he could not be admitted to the Holy Communion, nor received into church. Still the Emperor does not seem to have believed he could be really... ...eror as usual to the Basilica or Justice Hall, that had been turned into a church. Then to the door came the Bishop and stood in the way, forbidding t... ..., Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power of assisting him. The Duk... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav... ...a, originally Protestant, had passed into the hands of the Emperor’s Roman Catholic party. It was a fine old German city, standing amid woods and mead...

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...ages ought naturally to be favorable to the art of murder, as they were to church architecture, to stained glass, &c.; and, accordingly, about the lat... ...biographer’s account:— “Sunday morning the 21st of February, before it was church time, Spinosa came down stairs and conversed with the master and mis... ...ck with a good appetite, after the landlord and his wife had returned from church. “In the afternoon, L.M. staid alone with Spinosa, the people of the... ... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- men, what a sublime picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murdere... ...the earliest work of antediluvian art. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hun- dred and thirty-one 1 of his oper... ...ntirely unparalleled in literature, could not have existed except in Roman Catholic times, nor subse- quently have lingered in any Protestant land. It... ...e Bath mail. And suddenly we upon the mail are pulled up by a mighty dial, sculptured with the hours, and with the dreadful legend of TOO LATE. Then a...

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...ch did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was felt to l... ...nown universally six days later, the people would have gone right from the churchyard to the murderer’s lodgings, and (brooking no delay) would have t... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ith set pompous merriment and farcical buffoonery. This digni- tary of the church, Dean of the most conspicuous cathedral in Ireland, had, in full can... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ...Episcopal chapels, or rather the ornamented albes, &c. from any rich Roman Catholic establishment, would have been more effective. The Coryphaeus hims... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t...

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...s, the more it conceals them; and for the very same reason: just as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in ... ... at stake upon their husbands’ safety, rarely indeed are able to take this Roman view of their duties. T o return to the narrative. Agnes had not, nor... ...nd scarcely know- ing what I was in quest of, I strayed by accident into a church where a venerable old man was preaching at the very mo- ment I enter... ...dents of the life, if the very external coercions are themselves unusually romantic. They may thus gain a separate interest of their own. And, lastly,... ...bove all, if such a crime were perpetrated by an official mandatory of the church. Yet, again, so far it was the more hazardous course to abscond, tha... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o... ...ng her sex, or her relationship, even to her own brother. The grasp of the Church never relaxed, never ‘prescribed,’ unless freely and by choice. The ... ...iging attentions, ‘I myself hold the rank of Alferez in the service of his Catholic Majesty. I am a native of Biscay, and I am now repairing to Cuzco ...

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... the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests an... ...‘this great Prince’ again lies sick; but in how altered circumstances now! Churches resound not with excessive groanings; Paris is stoically calm: sob... ... Of which realised ideals, omitting the rest, consider only these two: his Church, or spiritual Guidance; his Kingship, or temporal one. The Church: w... ...s English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Catholicism—it was not till Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish... ...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ...n two opinions, is it not trying? He who would under- stand to what a pass Catholicism, and much else, had now got; and how the symbols of the Holiest... ...hen Emperor asks of his soul: Into what places art thou now departing? The Catholic King must answer: To the Judgment-bar of the Most High God! Yes, i... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...r him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so use- ful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;...

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........................................................ 16 LETTER V .—ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ............................................................ ... God, I began to question my courteous host. I opened with that which good Catholics have more than once made to Hugue- nots. “My dear sir,” said I, “... ...rom the hole where it was fastened, the populace went and searched for the Church of England clergyman who had been chiefly instrumental in bringing h... ...to the city, where he held forth, and made a great number of converts. The Church of England clergy found their congregations dwindle away daily; and ... ...enius and knowledge, and to whom Descartes had dedicated his Philosophical Romance. She was then retired to the Hague, where she received these Friend... ...BERS of the English Parliament are fond of comparing themselves to the old Romans. Not long since Mr. Shippen opened a speech in the House of Commons ... ... to me quite opposite in character, with regard both to good and evil. The Romans never knew the dreadful folly of religious wars, an abomination rese... ...he math- ematics, for physic, for researches into antiquity, for painting, sculpture, and architecture. Louis XIV. has immortalised his name by these ...

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... these inju- rious goods?– though you were old, and bald, and the first at church, and a baronet, what are you but a thief? These may seem hard words ... ...e like a gentleman and a hero, with no more concern than it takes to go to church or to address a circular? And yet all this time you had the eighth c... .... Are you surprised? It is even so. And you repeat it every Sunday in your churches. ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle tha... ...n minis- ters, the government physicians, and so forth, but never with the Catholic idea of meriting eternal life.– Yours, etc., ‘C. M. HYDE.’* To dea... ...ginally laid it out’ [intended to lay it out] ‘entirely for the benefit of Catholics, and even so not wisely; but after a long, plain talk, he admit- ... ...u have done me a service; it would have been a theft.’ There are many (not Catholics merely) who require their heroes and saints to be infallible; to ... ...ue elixir for all vital spir- its, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enter- prises and their unromantic dissipations. When they are tak... ...nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do all the di... ...mself would defend the lines in which we are told how Laocoon ‘Revealed to Roman crowds, now Christian grown, 114 Robert Louis Stevenson That Pagan a...

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...r of ge- 14 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 nius, like true catholicity of faith, counts “nothing common or unclean.” What poetry Burns... ...him. His self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty o... ...is self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty of his ... ...pen, bold, and brave; Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave: Is he a Churchman? then he’s fond of power: A Quaker? sly: A Presbyterian? sour: A ... ... approves; A rebel to the very king he loves; He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why... ...and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! D... ...nds, Because she’s honest, and the best of friends. Or her, whose life the church and scandal share, For ever in a passion or a prayer. Or her, who la... ...Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms s... ... T emple of Fame. By Mr Preston. Sold by John Morphew, 1715, price 6d. The Catholic Poet, or Protestant Barnaby’s Sorrowful Lam- entations; a Ballad a...