effect is like that of thinning some crowded and overgrown forest. There is gain in every respect; gain in what is taken away, gain for what remains : so at least it has seemed to me, when on more than one occasion I have used the axe of excision. Great as is the length to which these prefatory words have run, and much as they have obliged me to speak, which I would willingly have avoided, in the first person, I yet cannot conclude them without giving utterance to this as my earnest prayer,--that there may be nothing found in these pages to minister to error, or with which wise and understanding children of our own spiritual mother might be justly displeased. If I have attained this, I shall abundantly be rewarded for some anxious and laborious hours, which the preparation of this volume has cost me. ITCHENSTOKE, Jan. 1849. CONTENTS. PAG 1 - - Stringere pauca libet bona carminis Hic est qui, carnis intrans ergastula O ter fæcundas, o ter jucundas - 113 XVI. Quisquis ades, mediique subis in limina XVII. Desere jam, anima, lectulum soporis - 117 XIX. Quàm despectus, quàm dejectus XX. Quantum hamum caritas tibi præsen- 129 XXIII. Salve, festa dies, toto venerabilis ævo - 135 XXVI. Mortis portis fractis, fortis XXXII, Spiritus Sancte, Pie Paraclite - XXXIV. Qui procedis ab utroque Est locus ex omni medium quem credi- XXXVIII. Pax concordat universa XLIII. Nocte quâdam, viâ fessus - 197 203 - - 1 Cur mundus militat sub vanâ gloriâ - 216 Gravi me terrore pulsas, vitæ dies ultima 259 Apparebit repentina dies magna Domini 267 Credere quid dubitem fieri quod posse Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. PAGE Adam of St Victor 53 80 87 95 98 101 106 112 119 125 · 162 178 195 217 234 237 244 249 256 258 270 285 302 |