Capitolo 3
Legends, the great art and only, neither it is their technical dominion
neither their fidelity to the durable laws of entirely great art,--although
these are unusual them perfection,--but rather the particular one
spiritual impulse that informed the time, and from his/her intensity, his/her
penetrating power, and his/her dynamic strength beaten a round and
complete civilization and it manifested this through thousand various
channels.
Greater, perhaps, also that his/her taking of the unusual entirety of
civilization of mediaeval, is the power of the Mr. Adams to unite himself/herself/themselves in a
long dead time, of thinking and to feel with the men and women
thereof, and breathing so on the dead bones of the antiquity that again
they is dressed with meat and attire their calls,
truncate, and alive souls again, not only to the conscience of the
reader, but first his many eyes. And it is not a thin simulacrum him
increases from some doubtful alchemy: it is not any phantasms of the past that
shines weakly in front of us in these magic pages; it is the a lot of time
it which we am united. We gather there with the abbot and his
monks and the crusaders and pilgrims in the Shrine of the
Archangel: we pay our devoirs to the French and equitable Queens,--Blanche of
Castile, Eleanor of Aquitaine Mary to Champagne,--fight them
battles for them as servants of liege: we dispute with Abelard Thomas,
of Aquino, dun Scottish: we take our parts in the Court of
With love, or you sing the sublime and sounding encomiums of God with the
Canons of Saint Victor: our eyes finally opened, and after many days
we kneel there first Ours Mrs. of the Pity, while asking his/her intercession her
affectionate weary but faithful. Seven centuries dissolve and they fade away away,
being as they was not, and the thirteenth century lives less for us
what we live in him and we am a part of his/her cheerfulness and light-
heartedness, his/her young ardour and action that it abounds his childish
the simplicity and the frankness, his/her normal and healthy and all-embracing