Cruciana. Illustrations of the Most Striking Aspects Under Which the Cross of Christ, and Symbols Derived from It, Have Been Contemplated
by John Holland (9781150797934)

Cruciana. Illustrations of the Most Striking Aspects Under Which the Cross of Christ, and Symbols Derived from It, Have Been Contemplated (Book)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ADVERTISEMENT. The Sonnets and citations comprised in the following pages, are not in any respect designed as the symbols, much less as the arms, of a sentimental crusade for the recovery of any portion of that territory of the heart or the imagination -- holy or unholy -- which, between knowledge and superstition, was anciently held debateable, but which, in modern times, it may be hoped, is brought too entirely under the dominion of truth ever again to be lost. . While, however, on the one hand, the compiler of this cento avows himself too little of a papist to have any idolatrous reverence for the cross, under any modified exhibition whatever -- and, on- the other hand, too little of a puritan to despise altogether that reference to it, which even some protestants have ceremonially retained, -- it may, at the same time, be only honest to confess that, while, as a poet, he cannot contemplate under any circumstances this striking symbol of man's salvation without peculiaremotions and recollections; so, as a Christian, he should with difficulty be persuaded of the fervency of that man's piety, who could hold in his hand, or believe that he held in his hand, a piece of the " true cross," without its exciting a single religious thought, or accelerating a single devotional feeling. As to the impossibility of obtaining this tangible test, it need scarcely be added, the writer entirely agrees with the most inveterate iconoclast With respect to the Sonnets, they have been written at intervals, as the author happened to think or feel at the moment, without any very specific design as to the ultimate appro...

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