Cross Bulletin June 1916

Cross Bulletin June 1916

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Cross Magazine, Cross, Passionists
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Passionists, Monthly Magazine, Devotional, Catholic, 20th Century
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June , 1916 . No. 2 . ( Rembrandt .

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but it will no longer call forth the same feelings of astonish- express your awe at its immersion , but if you visit it in its panse of the Lineburg Heath , and you will find no words to as his own peculiar sphere . All nature , from the orbs of sonages whom he found ready to hand to appear as characters . gassions , joy and sorrow . love and hate , hope and fear , find had but an imperfect sense of his own greatness , or as if the of them an individuality as distinct as those real per- man was greater than his works . Not one of his plays was denied him , but the whole field of the actual and the possible , he had immediately practical ends alone in view , and he saw as far as it can be known by human reason . he might well claim would go far to prove that Englishmen must be by nature and treated it with more or less fidelity and success : while the of fairy , which seem to pulse with life and to possess each one neighbouring mountains , it will still indeed appear a giant , that the greatest glory of England is her poetry . Among reiled before him , and all the moods of men , and all their native home , it you approach it by crossing over the lofty tains of Switzerland . Transport Mont Blanc to the level ex- The Genius of Shakespeare . may be explained at least in part by the greatness of the age taken for their domain some particular aspect of life or nature , contemporaries : he trad " on earth unguessed at . " This essentially prosaic . Yet it has been said with perfect truth " crimson drops " that stain the petals of the cowship , was un- genius of Shakespeare , like the eye of his own poet , glanced English poets Shakespeare is supreme . Other poets have published with his sanction and co-operation . As he wrote , ' It is with Shakespeare , " says Goethe , " as with the moun- fit expression in his matchless speech . That man must have The light that never was on sea or land , ment and wonder . " It would seem as if Shakespeare himself but an imperfect acquaintance with his achievements who of shopkeepers . Were the truth of this view admitted , it in which he lived , the heroic figures with which it was peopleed . W Continental neighbours look upon England as a nation The real greatness of Shakespeare was unknown to his " from heaven to earth . from earth to heaven , " and not only heaven which more with the rhythmic music down to the would not hesitate to address to him the words of Hamlet to gave back what it be held suffused with The consecration , and the poet's dream , but also created the airv forms of the spirit realm and the land in his historical dramas . Supernatural inspiration alone was Then are dream of in your philosophy . Horatio : VE are all familiar with the popular idea that our There are more things in heaven and earth 35 .

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