Produced by Daniel Fromont
[Transcriber's note: Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812-1885),Ellen Middleton - a tale (1844), 1846 Tauchnitz edition]
1846.
"I have read of a bird which hath a face like, and yet willprey upon, a man, who, coming to the water to drink, andfinding there by reflexion that he had killed one likehimself, pineth away by degrees, and never after enjoyethitself. Such was in some sort the condition of—. Thisaccident that he had killed one put a period to his carnalmirth, and was a covering to his eyes all the days of hislife. Death was so sent to him as to allow him time to rise upon his knees and to crie, 'Lord have mercy upon me.'"
Fuller's Worthies, vol. II. p. 17.
"From each carved nook, and fretted bend,
Cornice and gallery, seem to send
Tones that with Seraph hymns might blend.
"Three solemn parts together twine,
In Harmony's mysterious line,
Three solemn aisles approach the shrine.
"Yet all are one, together all,
With thoughts that awe but not appal,
Teach the adoring heart to fall."
"But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister's pale,
And love the high-embowered roof,
With antic pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light;
There let the pealing organ blow,
To the full voiced quire below,
In service high and anthems clear,
As may with sweetness through mine ear
Dissolve me into extasies,
And bring all Heaven before mine eyes."
"What child of sorrow
Art thou, that com'st wrapt up in weeds of sadness,
And mov'st as if thy steps were towards a grave?"
It was on the 15th of October, 18—, that one of the best andmost respected clergymen in the town of—, and a canon of thecathedral, turned his steps towards the western door of thatancient pile. It was a little before the hour of eveningservice; the rays of the declining sun were shining brightlythrough the windows of painted glass, and producing thatmellow and chastened light that accords so well with thefeeling of religious awe, which a gothic edifice, the noblestof the works of man, is calculated to inspire; a work where hehas been enabled to stamp on what is material an indelibleimpress of that spirit of devotion, which unites the utmostsimplicit