A History of the Venerable English College, Rome: An Account of Its Origins and Work from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1920 - 291 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 159 - Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago, Qua mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuit, Cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui, Labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis.
Pàgina 56 - Bristowe : for that both his quality was excellent, and his person grateful ; and [he] was a divine, which had been more fit, than one of another profession ; besides the country, which, you know, many respect : — how well and wisely, I do not say. Therefore, that he, or some other like, was not chosen, or first appointed at the beginning, it was, as I told you, an error ; the rather noted, because Mr. Maurice, being otherwise a very honest and friendly man, and a great advancer of the students...
Pàgina 139 - ... venerable church, there it was in the person of the more than octogenarian porter Vincenzo, who stood, all salutation, from the wagging appendage to his grey head to the large silver buckles on his shoes, mumbling toothless welcomes in an as yet almost unknown tongue, but full of humble joy and almost patriarchal affection, on seeing the haunts of his own youth repeopled.
Pàgina 151 - ... appointed day, a Te Deum, attended by the various British colleges, was performed ; in the afternoon a banquet on a munificent scale was given at his villa near St. Paul's, by Monsignor Nicolai, the learned illustrator of that Basilica ; and in the evening we returned home to see the upturned faces of multitudes reflecting the brilliant " lamps of architecture " that tapestried our venerable walls. But the words
Pàgina 139 - Dec. 24. Took six of the students to the Pope. The other four could not be clothed. The Holy Father received them standing', shook hands with each, and welcomed them to Rome. He praised the English clergy for their good and peaceful conduct, and their fidelity to the Holy See. He exhorted the youths to learning and piety, and said ; ' I hope you will do honour both to Rome and to your own country,' ' " Such is the writer's first personal recollection of a Pope, and that Pope the illustrious Pius...
Pàgina 69 - Church was at war! and therefore came those brighthaired strangers to him, ere they set out for the scene of their passion, that the full zeal and love pent up in that burning breast might find a vent, and flow over, from him who was kept at home, upon those who were to face the foe. Therefore...
Pàgina 159 - It was a sorrowful evening, at the beginning of autumn, when, after a residence in Rome prolonged through twenty-two years, till affection clung to every old stone there, like the moss that grew into it, this strong but tender tie was cut, and much of future happiness had to be invested in the mournful recollections of the past.
Pàgina 151 - represents Don Giovanni seized in the midst of his licentious career by a troop of devils and hurried down to hell. As I saw this scene I was terrified at my own state. I knew that God, who knew what was within me, must look on me as one in the same class with such as Don Giovanni ; . . . this holy warning I was to find in an opera-house in Paris.
Pàgina 139 - English youths, where many an English pilgrim, gentle or simple, had knelt leaning on his trusty staff cut in Needwood or the New Forest ; where many a noble student from Bologna or Padua had prayed as he had been lodged and fed in forma pauperis, when before returning home he came to visit the tomb of the Apostles. . . . Around lay scattered memorials of the past. One splendid monument, erected to Sir Thomas Dereham at the bottom of the church, was entirely walled up and so invisible.
Pàgina 155 - ... There lie, too, the bones of many Jacobites, honest martyrs to a worthless cause. We looked into the refectory, much like the halls of the small colleges at Cambridge in my time — that of Peterhouse, for example — and smelling strongly of yesterday's supper, which strengthened the resemblance.

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