Gleanings from 'The Blue', a Selection of Poetry and Prose (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... vigour even now. We need not go far to seek another reason. All the historical events in our country since the Reformation tend more and more to stamp out the name of monk from among us. The suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. first kindled the long smouldering flame of popular hatred for "monkery." To think that vile ecclesiastics should have lorded in England, should have lived on the fat of the land, should have ground down the people as their menials Such was the form the popular indignation took, while men of culture like Erasmus and Colet lavished their keen sarcasm on "the lovers of darkness." Still the desire for the suppression of the monasteries was by no means the desire of the majority. The people rose in rebellion, feeble though it was, to protest against such a course, while a long and fierce debate in the Commons ended only in a compromise. Perhaps the monasteries might still have prolonged their existence, might still have kept their hold on the hearts of the English people. But another enemy was in the field. Another foe was fast approaching, nay, was even now at hand. Puritanism inflicted a deadly wound on any relic of Monasticism that might have escaped the avarice of Henry. It was toward the end of Elizabeth's reign that a party was beginning to form inspired with a mortal hatred of all that was Popish. This party was soon to blacken the whole sky of the national character. The sour look, the nasal twang, the mournful dress of Mr. Hew-Agag-in-pieces-before-theLord (as Macaulay names the ideal Puritan) now began to show itself in place of the cowl of the regular clergy. But the Puritans for all their virulent hate of Monasticism only succeeded in reproducing the same sentiments and feelings under a different guise. The monk r...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... vigour even now. We need not go far to seek another reason. All the historical events in our country since the Reformation tend more and more to stamp out the name of monk from among us. The suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. first kindled the long smouldering flame of popular hatred for "monkery." To think that vile ecclesiastics should have lorded in England, should have lived on the fat of the land, should have ground down the people as their menials Such was the form the popular indignation took, while men of culture like Erasmus and Colet lavished their keen sarcasm on "the lovers of darkness." Still the desire for the suppression of the monasteries was by no means the desire of the majority. The people rose in rebellion, feeble though it was, to protest against such a course, while a long and fierce debate in the Commons ended only in a compromise. Perhaps the monasteries might still have prolonged their existence, might still have kept their hold on the hearts of the English people. But another enemy was in the field. Another foe was fast approaching, nay, was even now at hand. Puritanism inflicted a deadly wound on any relic of Monasticism that might have escaped the avarice of Henry. It was toward the end of Elizabeth's reign that a party was beginning to form inspired with a mortal hatred of all that was Popish. This party was soon to blacken the whole sky of the national character. The sour look, the nasal twang, the mournful dress of Mr. Hew-Agag-in-pieces-before-theLord (as Macaulay names the ideal Puritan) now began to show itself in place of the cowl of the regular clergy. But the Puritans for all their virulent hate of Monasticism only succeeded in reproducing the same sentiments and feelings under a different guise. The monk r...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

98

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978-0-217-80815-6

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9780217808156

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0-217-80815-8



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