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Updated: May 28, 2025
I tell you, my friends, that this hymn is so deep, that it is too deep for the shallow brains of which the world is full now-a- days, who fancy that they know all about heaven and earth, just because they happen to have been born now, and not two hundred years ago.
We can hardly fancy the Archbishop of Canterbury or York resigning his diocese and settling down quietly on the top of Scafell or Cader Idris to secure his eternal welfare. They would hardly do so even on the top of Primrose Hill. But nine hundred years ago human nature was not the same as now-a- days.
But neither there, nor in Spain, could the Vandals cure the evil. 'Now-a- days, says Salvian, 'there are no profligates among the Goths, save Romans; none among the Vandals, save Romans. Blush, Roman people, everywhere, blush for your morals. There is hardly a city free from dens of sin, and none at all from impurity, save those which the barbarians have begun to occupy.
'You've only just come home, lad. You don't know me, as I am now-a- days! Ask Robinson I won't have you asking Osborne, he ought to keep it to himself but any of the servants will tell you I'm not like the same man for getting into passions with them. I used to be reckoned a good master, but that is past now!
Didenhover ha'n't fetched any of this year's home; so I made a bargain with 'em they shouldn't starve as long as they'd eat boiled pursley." "What do you give them?" "'Most everything they ain't particler now-a days chunks o' cabbage, and scarcity, and pun'kin and that all the sass that ain't wanted." "And do they eat that?" "Eat it!" said Barby. "They don't know how to thank me for't!"
They could not make enough of my red sash; and my knife filled them with awe. 'They make them like that in England, said the boy with one arm. I was glad he did not know how badly we make them in England now-a- days. 'They are for people who go away to sea, he added, 'and to defend one's life against great fish.
"A sweet youth he would have been by this time, had he lived, worthy nobleman! This is his son, the Lord Nigel." "His son!" said Ramsay; "maybe he will want something of a chronometer, or watch few gallants care to be without them now-a- days."
The old man, when I saw him last, wore the coat in which he had played the gentleman three years before; and that was just what gave him so pre-eminent an air of wretchedness. It is true that the over-population was at least as dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that now-a- days some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore have been fortunately pretermitted.
A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker as we call the usurer now-a -days -or brewer, orator, anything that leads up to a figure-head, and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him. I 've thought something like it, but wanted the word. They say themselves, "Get to know, and you see with what little wisdom the world is governed!" You explain how it is. I shall carry "aptitudes" away.
Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural magic I am speaking of, is sure, now-a- days, if it appears in the productions of the Celts, or of the English, or of the French, to appear in the productions of the Germans also, or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, which it will not have in the literatures where it is not native.
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