...we may perhaps apply the words of that great master of the English language, Cardinal Newman — " That sense of ruin which is worse than pain ; That masterful negation and collapse Of all that makes one man" — and yet under this assuaging balm it passes away and the spirit is at ease. These are...

...about five o'clock ? or had she wandered out on the moor, and lost her way ? or what ? CHAPTER XVI. " I can no more : for now it comes again, That sense...masterful negation and collapse Of all that makes me man." Dream of Gerontiut. As soon as Mrs. Trelawney left him, Father Wilfrid had started on a sick call to...

...horror ! this it is, my dearest, this : So pray for me, my friends, who have not strength to pray. 1 can no more ; for now it comes again, That sense of...as though I bent Over the dizzy brink Of some sheer inñnite descent ; Or worse, as though Down, down for ever I was falling through The solid framework...

...rain, which is worse' than That masterful negation and coUapge Of all that makes me man ; as though l Over the dizzy brink Of some sheer infinite descent...as though Down, down for ever I was falling through •k of created things, The solid framework of creareu And needs must sink and sink lnto the vast abyss....

...aggravated by physical sensations of the most appalling nature, and by apparitions in baleful guise :"I can no more; for now it comes again, That sense...masterful negation and collapse Of all that makes me man ; aa though I bent Over the dizzy brink Of some sheer infinite descent; Or worse, as though Down, down...

...be found. My God, my Go3 I Look not so fierce on me!" .And here is Newman's Gerontius, who feels " That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain, That...and collapse Of all that makes me man .... as though Down, down, forever, I was falling through The solid framework of created things. and crueller still,...

...no more ; for now it comes again — That aenae of ruin, which is worse than pain, That masterf ul negation and collapse Of all that makes me man : as...dizzy brink Of some sheer infinite descent ; Or worse, us though Down, down for ever, I was falling through The solid framework of created things, And needs...

...approach death with indifference.' " "How horrible Newman's notion of dying is," said Eleanor: " ' I care no more, for now it comes again, That sense of ruin which is worse than pain. ****** And, crueller still, A fierce and restless fright begins to fill The mansion of my soul. And,...

...assuage." The following remarkable Soliloquy is given by the Author of " The Dream of Gerontius : " — " I can no more ; for now it comes ; again — That...masterful negation and collapse Of all that makes the man ; as though I bent Over the dizzy brink Of some sheer infinite descent ; Or worse, as though...

...universal frame Into that shapeless, scopeless, blank abyss, That utter nothingness of which I came! ****** That sense of ruin which is worse than pain ; That...infinite descent ! Or worse, as though Down, down forever, I was falling through The solid framework of created things, And needs must sink and sink...