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on ; the contrary , conjoined . TMt it herders on the mystic and dangerous quietism * of the old French school of * The following original translation of a passage from the Tenth Satire of Boileau , ( on Women , ) may convey some idea of the attempts made in the satirist ' s time , and encouraged by ecclesiastics , to unite a life of dissipation with one of religion .
The very saints she beats in pious cares , She reads in Rodriguez ,+ ecus mental prayers , Ransacks the town to find the wretched out , Visits all hospitals and jails about , Speeds from her duty and her home away ,
To hear at church six masses every day . But all her faults to combat and subdue , To stem her love of paint , and rage for loo , To bound her mad ambition to its goal , To quell the pride of her rebellious soul , Over her luxury to cast a rein , — All this the will of Heaven requires in
. But can it be the will of Heaven ? she cries , Her ghostly father—he is surely wise . For him she means without delay to
send , And to his precepts reverently attend . Good ! by my soul , the monk is just in eight : How plump and red he looks ! how sleekly bright ] X The flush of spring , with all its blooming
grace , Seems to be painted on his reverend face . But hark ! ' tis difficult to hear him
speak , An ague yesterday has left him weak ; And had not prompt assistance then been sped , He might have now lain shiv ' ring in his bed .
For of all mortals in this world of woe , Thanks to the souls that with devotion glow , None are so coddled with unceasing care , As ghostly fathers to your pious fair . If they betray the slightest mark of ill , If they but gape , touch'd by some sudden
chill—+ Rodriguez , a Jesuit , who composed an excellent work on Christian Perfection J . Of all the characters in this Satire , Boileau gave the preference to the ghostly father . The author , says one of the commentators , had a particular allusion to a M . H
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pietists , is to my mind no objection . Thin partitions separate all the virtues from all the vices . Triie sentiment A hooded squadron rushes to their aid , One heats a broth , one gets a cordial made ; Syrups , preserves and ratafias fly , The best that art can make , or wealth
can buy ; Since no sweet viands , of delicious taste , Liquid or dry , or wrought of sugar'd paste , In sacred stomachs , ever were misplaced . For them , raethinks , the first lnarchpane was made , * For them , at Rouen , rose the citron trade +
Our doctor solves all scruples in a trice , And smooths for her the path to paradise ; And far from reining her wild passions in , He takes all pains to justify her sin . < c Why should a foolish censure cause alarm ? Why should they fret that rouge sets off a charm ? Is rouge , " he cries , " so horrid an affair , That thus the brutes your innocence would scare ? While all must bend to customs as they
go , The sex , a tribute , sure , to fashioq owe . You dress too splendidly , some censor cries , Your dazzling rubies almost blind our eyes .
Can Heaven endure such luxury to see ? I answer , Yes , if but the rank agree . But then you play—how authorize that crime ? Oh , may not one beguile one ' s heavy time ? One cannot always read , or work , or
pray , And none talk scandal when engaged in play . The deepest rounds , when play'd with this design , I class with actions virtuous and divine . If you possess a faithful , pious soul , Fear not , for that shall sanctify the whole . "
****** Thus does the father settle every doubt , That seems to agitate his fair devout ; * A kind of cake . -f The most exquisite preserved ci trons were prepared at Rooen .
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Critical Synopsis of the MvnihlpJ&ejfhaitorpfor January , 1825 . 77
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/13/
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