The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated ...
The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated ...
John Colin Dunlop
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'' This tale," says the author, '' was read every year in the monastery of the White Monks for tkeir edifr cation.*^ The monks gave to the devil a human form, hideous, however, and disgusting. In the miniatures of manuscripts, the paintings in cloisters, and figures on the gates and win- dowM of churches, he is represented as a black withered man, with a long tail, and claws to his feet and hands. It was also believed that he felt much mortification in being thus por- trayed. One of the most ce...lebrated stories in the spiritual tales, is " De 1* Hermite qu' un Ange eonduisit dans le Siecle." It is not in the 290 ORIGIN OF* SPIRITUAL ROMANCE. collection of Comsi, Tint occurs in the Vies des Peres, whence it has heen abstracted by Le Grand. A hermit, who had lived in solitude and penance from his earliest youth, began at length to murmur against Heaven, because he had not been raised to one of tliose happy and biillitint conditions of which his quest for alms sometimes rendered him witness.
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