The Gentleman's Magazine (Volume 254) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. May 1883. THE NEW ABELARD. A ROMANCE. By Robert Buchanan, Author Of "the Shadow Of The Sword," "god And The Man," Etc. Chapter XII. IN A SICK ROOM. Ah blessed promise Shall it be fulfilled, Tho' the eye glazes and the sense is still'd? Shall that fair Shape which beckon'd with bright hand Out of the mirage of a Heavenly Land, Fade to a cloud that moves with blighting breath Over the ever-troublous sea of Death? Ah no; for on the crown of Zion's Hill, Cloth'd on with peace, the fair Shape beckons still The New Crusade. IT was a curious sensation for Ambrose Bradley, after bitter experience of a somewhat ignominious persecution, to find himself all at once--by a mere shuffle of the cards, as it were-- one of the most popular persons in all Bohemia; I say Bohemia advisedly, for of course that greater world of fashion and rehgion, which Bohemia merely fringes, regarded the New Church and its pastor with supreme indifference. But the worship of Bohemia is something; nay, Bradley found it much. He could count among the occasional visitors to his temple some of the leading names in Art and Science. Fair votaries came to him by legions, led by the impassioned and enthusiastic Alrra Craik. The society journals made much of him; one of them, in a series of articles called "Celebrities in their Slippers," gave a glowing picture of the new Apostle in his study, in which the sweetest of Vol. ecu v. No. 1829. G G Raphael's Madonnas looked down wonderingly on Milo's Venus, and where Newman's "Parochial Sermons" stood side by side with Tyndall's Belfast address, and the original edition of the "Vestiges of Creation." The correspondent of the New York Herald telegraphed, on more than one occasion, the whole, or nearly the whole, of one of his...