The Eclectic Review, Vol. 4: July December, 1858; New Series (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It was something, however, to see that first day, the spot revisited where many an English pilgrim, entle or sim le, had knelt leaning on his trust staff, cut in eedwood or t s New Forest; where many a nob 0 student from Bologna or Padua had prayed in form papers), as he was lodged and fed, when, before returning home, he came to visit the tomb of the Apostles; and still more, where man and many a student, like those now gathered there, had sobhe his farewell to the happy spring days and the quiet home of youth, before starting on is wear-y journey to the peril of evil days in his native land. 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 roofed over, and so invisible.' But shattered and defaced la the richly-efligied tombs of an archbishop of York and a prior of orcester, and of many other English worthies; while sadder wreckage of the recent storm was piled on one side - the skulls and bones of, perhaps, Cardinal Allen, F. Persons, and others, whose coffins had been dragged u from the vaults below, and converted into munitions of war. And there was required a living link between the resent and the past, between the yonn generation that stood at t 0 door and the old one that had passed into the cry t of the venerable church, there it was, in the sreou of the more t octo gaharian porter, Vincenzo, who stood salutation from the w ging appendage to his grey head to the large silver buckles on his s oes, mumbling toothless welcomes in a yet almost unknown tongue, but full of humble joy and almost patriarchal afl'ection, on seeing the haunts of his own youth repeopled.

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