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The MBT position actors have since conquered in almost every country, and the extent to which the theatre has become a recognised institution, must be MBT Shoes manifest to everyone. Among the many illustrations of the impotence of mo¬dern ecclesiastical efforts to arrest the natural current of society, there are few more curious than is furnished on the opening night of the Roman theatre, Tory Burch Flats when the cardinal-governor of Rome appears, as the representa¬tive of the pope, to sanction the entertainment by his
presence, to listen to the sweet songs of the opera sung by female singers, and to watch the wreathings of the dance.
I trust the reader will pardon the great length to which this disquisition 011 the drama has extended. It is not altogether of the MBT Shoes Clearance nature of a digression, because, although an institution like the theatre cannot be regarded as entirely the crcation of any one nation, it certainly owes its first impulse and some of its leading characteristics to that union of an industrial and intellectual civilisation which attained its culmi¬nation under the Medici. Nor is it without an im¬portant bearing on the subject of my work, because the successive transformations I have reviewed furnish one of the most striking examples of that process of gradual secularisation Avhich, under the influence of the rationalistic spirit, is displayed in turn in each department of thought and action. Besides this, Tory Burch Shoes there are few more powerfully destructive agents than Tory Burch customs or institutions, 110 matter how little Tory Burch Outlet aggres¬sive, which a Church claiming supreme authority endeavours to suppress, and which have nevertheless secured their position in the world.

the profession
Among those who were thus refused a place in con¬secrated ground was the beautiful and gifted Lc Couvreur, who had been perhaps the brightest orna¬ment of the French stage. She died without having abjured the profession she had adorned, and she was buried in a field for cattle upon the banks of the Seine. An ode by Voltaire, burning with the deep fire of an indignant pathos, has at once avenged and consecrated her memory.
It is hard for Tory Burch Outlet those who are acquainted with the habits of modern Roman Catholic countries to realise the intense bitterness which theologians of the seven- teentli and eighteenth centuries manifested towards the theatre. Moli&re, whose plays were continually cited as among the most signal instances of its de¬pravity, was the object of especial denunciation, and when he died, it. was only with extreme difficulty that permission could be obtained to bury him in conse¬crated ground.1 Tory Burch Flats The MBT religious mind of Racine re¬coiled MBT Shoes Clearance before the censure. He ceased to write for the stage when in the zenith of his powers, and an extra¬ordinary epitaph, MBT Shoes while recording his virtues, acknow¬ledges that there was one stain upon his memory —he had been a dramatic poet.2 In 1696, and again in 1701, on the occasion of the jubilee, the actors entreated the Tory Burch Shoes pope to relieve them from the censures of the canon law, but their request was unavail¬ing; and when, upon the recovery of Louis XIV. from a serious illness, every other Tory Burch corporation at Paris offered up a Te Deuin, they were especially ex¬cluded.3