Prescuted to the? Fether Het. Arden CT? COMPITUM; I Convent OR, THE MEETING OF THE WAYS AT THE Catholic Church. THE SECOND BOOK. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS OF THE GREEK, LATIN, AND LONDON: C. DOLMAN, 61, NEW BOND STREET, MDCCCLII. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTENTS. THE ROAD OF RURAL IMPRESSIONS. Entrance on the ways which answer to those of the clear contem- The scenery of the chase presents an avenue to the Catholic Church in consequence of its historical associations-of its recalling peni- tents and saints. Direction supplied by contrasts-by repugnance to cruelty-by the sympathy with creatures which faith inspires, Danger of this road acknowledged by those who follow it, 70. Di- rections to the Catholic Church supplied by the ennobling influ- ence of poetry, 72; by its natural affinity with the historical glories of Catholicism, 76; by its love of antiquity-by its songs of war, 80; by its Homeric or Virgilian inclination to view the departed, by its representations of human life, and by its religious |