...1 It is finely said by Mr. Symonds: ' During the middle ages man had lived enveloped in a cowl. Ho had not seen the beauty of the world, or had seen...himself, and turn aside and tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard travelling along the shores of the Lake Leman, and noticing neither the azure of the waters,...

...mediaeval thought.1 This worship of classical genius, indeed, 1 It is finely said by Mr. Symonds: ' During the middle ages man had lived enveloped in a cowl. He had not seen tho beauty of the world, or had seen it only to cross himself, and turn aside and tell his bends and...

...any period that elapsed between the triumph of Christianity and the fourteenth century. — LECK.Y. During the Middle Ages man had lived enveloped in...himself, and turn aside and tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard travelling along the shores of Lake Leman, and noticing neither the azure of the waters,...

...and Romans, was geo-centric, glorying in the earthlyhuman. 'During the middle ages,' says Symonds, ' man had lived enveloped in a cowl. He had not seen...himself and turn aside and tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard, travelling along the shores of the Lake Leman, and noticing neither the azure of the waters...

...wealth, magnificence, and that repose which springs from long prosperity, that the new age at last began. During the Middle Ages man had lived enveloped in...cowl. He had not seen the beauty of .. ., , , , ,. The view the world, or had seen it only to cross him- of ufe ^ self and turn aside, to tell his beads and...

...had given man a searching spirit and doubting mind, and that scepticism merited torture and death. " During the Middle Ages man had lived enveloped in...cowl. He had not seen the beauty of the world, or seen it only to cross himself and turn aside to tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard, travelling...

...scattered with such lavish profusion on every side. "During the Middle Ages," says John Addington Symonds, "man had lived enveloped in a cowl. He had not seen...or had seen it only to cross himself and turn aside to tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard, traveling along the shores of Lake Leman, and noticing...

...Middle Age was completely revolutionized. Symonds, one of the great historians of this movement, says: " During the Middle Ages man had lived enveloped in...himself and turn aside and tell his beads and pray." The ideal set before the mediieval man had led him to regard " beauty as a snare, pleasure a sin."...

...personality in action. We may apply to them what Browning has written of Bordello's temperament: " A football there Suffices to upturn to the warm air Half -germinating...himself, and turn aside and tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard travelling along the shores of Lake Leman, and noticing neither the azure of the waters...

...put to sea with one who carried an instrument so evidently constructed by the devil." Symonds says: "During the Middle Ages, man had lived enveloped in...had seen it only to cross himself and turn aside, to tell his beads and pray." Before the Renaissance, the tendency was to regard with contempt mere...