Letters of Horace Walpole Vol Ii 8 4
Letters of Horace Walpole Vol Ii 8 4
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Louis _Quinze_ is the true_rex Christianissimus_, and has ten times more success than hisdragooning great-grandfather. Adieu, my dear Sir! Yours most faithfully.
_Friday 9th. _ ... It is very singular that I have not half the satisfaction in goinginto churches and convents that I used to have. The consciousness thatthe vision is dispelled, the want of fervour so obvious in thereligious, the solitude that one knows proceeds from contempt, not fromcontemplation, make those places appear like aban...doned theatres destinedto destruction. The monks trot about as if they had not long to staythere; and what used to be holy gloom is now but dirt and darkness. There is no more deception than in a tragedy acted by candle-snuffers. One is sorry to think that an empire of common sense would not be verypicturesque; for, as there is nothing but taste that can compensate forthe imagination of madness, I doubt there will never be twenty men oftaste for twenty thousand madmen. The world will no more see Athens, Rome, and the Medici again, than a succession of five good emperors, like Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the two Antonines.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Louis _Quinze_ is the true_rex Christianissimus_, and has ten times more success than hisdragooning great-grandfather. Adieu, my dear Sir! Yours most faithfully.
_Friday 9th. _ ... It is very singular that I have not half the satisfaction in goinginto churches and convents that I used to have. The consciousness thatthe vision is dispelled, the want of fervour so obvious in thereligious, the solitude that one knows proceeds from contempt, not fromcontemplation, make those places appear like aban...doned theatres destinedto destruction. The monks trot about as if they had not long to staythere; and what used to be holy gloom is now but dirt and darkness. There is no more deception than in a tragedy acted by candle-snuffers. One is sorry to think that an empire of common sense would not be verypicturesque; for, as there is nothing but taste that can compensate forthe imagination of madness, I doubt there will never be twenty men oftaste for twenty thousand madmen. The world will no more see Athens, Rome, and the Medici again, than a succession of five good emperors, like Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the two Antonines.
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