Old World Essays
Old World Essays
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' Here we think it necessary to distinguish. Certainly, we understand what he means well enough. We A DEBATE OF THE OLD WORLD ourselves were shown some little time ago a well in the prison of the Castle at Ghent. ' Up to the time of the Revolution, ' the guide suavely informed us, ' it was used to provide water for the torture. ' This went on for some five centuries. This is a thought one does not choose to dwell on. Yet does one, as Mr. Ho wells says, ' hate and detest the Past ' ? One detests... the horrible accidents, no doubt, the hideous means by which the framework of the old order of things was protected, the bloody rags of the tortures of five hundred years. But one loves the old life of Europe which went on, largely, one thinks, unaffected by such things. By a curious paradox, the great prophets of the Revolution have all been romanticists. Who ever felt the charm and fascination of the Old World like Michelet, or made his readers feel it as he does ? Think, for example, of Victor Hugo's description of the bells of Paris, which, by the way, appears to have suggested Faber's magnificent passage on the bells of the Old English Lady Day !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' Here we think it necessary to distinguish. Certainly, we understand what he means well enough. We A DEBATE OF THE OLD WORLD ourselves were shown some little time ago a well in the prison of the Castle at Ghent. ' Up to the time of the Revolution, ' the guide suavely informed us, ' it was used to provide water for the torture. ' This went on for some five centuries. This is a thought one does not choose to dwell on. Yet does one, as Mr. Ho wells says, ' hate and detest the Past ' ? One detests... the horrible accidents, no doubt, the hideous means by which the framework of the old order of things was protected, the bloody rags of the tortures of five hundred years. But one loves the old life of Europe which went on, largely, one thinks, unaffected by such things. By a curious paradox, the great prophets of the Revolution have all been romanticists. Who ever felt the charm and fascination of the Old World like Michelet, or made his readers feel it as he does ? Think, for example, of Victor Hugo's description of the bells of Paris, which, by the way, appears to have suggested Faber's magnificent passage on the bells of the Old English Lady Day !
What to read after Old World Essays?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by R L Richard Lawson Gales to read onlineMoreLess
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