The poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, after their civilisation and conversion, was of a different and softer character; but in the circumstances of Ulrica, she may be not unnaturally supposed to return to the wild strains which animated her forefathers during the time of
Paganism and untamed ferocity.
It was originally a nunnery, founded by Queen Bertha, but done away with by King Penda, the reactionary to
Paganism after St.
And he has also left other directions which the clergy of the village say should not and must not be obeyed because they savour of
paganism. To all which his great friend Ambrosio the student, he who, like him, also went dressed as a shepherd, replies that everything must be done without any omission according to the directions left by Chrysostom, and about this the village is all in commotion; however, report says that, after all, what Ambrosio and all the shepherds his friends desire will be done, and to-morrow they are coming to bury him with great ceremony where I said.
The lip-shapes that had meant seductiveness were now made to express supplication; the glow on the cheek that yesterday could be translated as riotousness was evangelized today into the splendour of pious rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism;
Paganism Paulinism; the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such mastery now beamed with the rude energy of a theolatry that was almost ferocious.
Did not the sacred character of these persons render the purity of their intentions unquestionable, I should certainly be led to suppose that they had exaggerated the evils of
Paganism, in order to enhance the merit of their own disinterested labours.
he has abandoned that vain relic of
paganism, his songs,” cried the divine; “ what says he now?
Paganism is infectious--more infectious than diphtheria or piety --and the Rector's niece was taken to church protesting.
And they never repent--they never forsake their
paganism. This thought calmed me, cheered me, and I sank down, limp and exhausted, upon the summit, but happy, so happy and serene within.
They had quarrelled over the service, which was every bit as fine as Sappho, according to Hewet; so that Hirst's
paganism was mere ostentation.
I cannot tell how to object the least thing against that affectionate concern which you show for the turning of the poor people from their
paganism to the Christian religion; but how does this comfort you, while these people are, in your account, out of the pale of the Catholic Church, without which you believe there is no salvation?
Fifty years later, when the Renaissance began to mingle with this unity which was so severe and yet so varied, the dazzling luxury of its fantasies and systems, its debasements of Roman round arches, Greek columns, and Gothic bases, its sculpture which was so tender and so ideal, its peculiar taste for arabesques and acanthus leaves, its architectural
paganism, contemporary with Luther, Paris, was perhaps, still more beautiful, although less harmonious to the eye, and to the thought.
"It sounds more like
Paganism to me," Rodney groaned, as he reviewed the situation into which her Christian doctrine was plunging them.