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John Oliver Hobbes

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Description:Excerpt from The School for Saints The guests, who were mostly of ripe years, enjoyed the evening to excess, ate and drank with easy stomachs, and played cards till daybreak. They toasted the youth, and many brought him gifts; but he felt that he was feasting with jailers in a prison, and he had no thought in common with his blessing friends. This sense of alienation from those he wished to love produced a melancholy as profound as it was inevitable. On the morning after the festival, he went - although he was a Protestant - to the Altar of Our Lady in the Cathedral, and at her feet laid some hawthorn boughs which he had gathered from the hedges, far outside the town, in silent lanes. He said a prayer and wept because he carried such a burden of ingratitude on his soul. An abbe surprised him in tears, and asked him the cause. "I feel a stranger," said Robert, "and a fool!" "You must remember," said the abbe, kindly, "that you are a poet." He had read some of his verses. Then he passed on, for there was an old rich rascal waiting close at hand to make his confession. Robert left the church and walked out toward the ramparts. The massive gateway and encircling walls struck a chill to his passionate soul. Once more he climbed the stony fortress and saw the sights, heard the sounds which had formed so far his sentimental education. Deeper than any dogma, stronger than his artistic craving for beauty, was the Puritan instinct for health and neatness which belonged to his English blood.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The School for Saints. To get started finding The School for Saints, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The School for Saints The guests, who were mostly of ripe years, enjoyed the evening to excess, ate and drank with easy stomachs, and played cards till daybreak. They toasted the youth, and many brought him gifts; but he felt that he was feasting with jailers in a prison, and he had no thought in common with his blessing friends. This sense of alienation from those he wished to love produced a melancholy as profound as it was inevitable. On the morning after the festival, he went - although he was a Protestant - to the Altar of Our Lady in the Cathedral, and at her feet laid some hawthorn boughs which he had gathered from the hedges, far outside the town, in silent lanes. He said a prayer and wept because he carried such a burden of ingratitude on his soul. An abbe surprised him in tears, and asked him the cause. "I feel a stranger," said Robert, "and a fool!" "You must remember," said the abbe, kindly, "that you are a poet." He had read some of his verses. Then he passed on, for there was an old rich rascal waiting close at hand to make his confession. Robert left the church and walked out toward the ramparts. The massive gateway and encircling walls struck a chill to his passionate soul. Once more he climbed the stony fortress and saw the sights, heard the sounds which had formed so far his sentimental education. Deeper than any dogma, stronger than his artistic craving for beauty, was the Puritan instinct for health and neatness which belonged to his English blood.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The School for Saints. To get started finding The School for Saints, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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