Richard Chenevix Trench (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. 1880-1886. "And there the Loveliness, whose glance From far did on me gleam, But whose unveiled countenance Was only seen in dream, "Will, meeting all my soul's desires, Unveil itself to me, When to the choir of starry lyres Shall mine united be." R. C. T., Paradise (from Ruckert). A SECOND edition of the Essay on "The Life and Genius of Calderon," with translations, was published in 1880; the Archbishop revising once more the work of his earliest manhood. "We must reckon it, upon the whole," a reviewer in the Tablet* wrote, "the best vehicle that exists for conveying to the English reader, ignorant of Spanish, a not wholly inadequate idea of the grand Castilian poet, ' the great and divine master, ' as Frederic Schlegcl speaks, 'by whom the enigma of life is not merely expressed, but solved.' ... A poet himself, and of no mean order, having much in common with the genius of the bard who is the subject of this study, Archbishop Trench possesses special qualifications as his English interpreter." To Rev. William Maturin, D.D.t Palace, Dublin, My Dear Maturin, April 16, 1880. Let me express to you--my wife has already expressed to Mrs. Maturin--the very sincere and deep concern with which we * June 12, 1880. t On the death of his young daughter, Ellen Maturin. learned that the blow which had been impending so long at length had fallen; though, indeed, where there is a readiness and fitness, with a true faith in a Saviour's cleansing blood, it is something amid all our sorrows for which to thank God, when He is pleased to deliver any of our beloved from the miseries of this sinful world. For ourselves of this household, it would ill become us if we did not in a measure enter into your present grief; for we cannot forget that twice within little more than ...