evensongs

I am especially intrigued because I find so much of old and high culture - cathedrals, evensongs, the eloquent language of your prayerbook – which I greatly admire.

The Archbishop's address at a Dinner given by the Nikæan Club 2008

I am especially intrigued because I find so much of old and high culture - cathedrals, evensongs, the eloquent language of your prayerbook – which I greatly admire.

The Archbishop's address at a Dinner given by the Nikæan Club 2008

I omit those French massacres, Sicilian evensongs, [306] the Duke of Alva's tyrannies, our gunpowder machinations, and that fourth fury, as [307] one calls it, the Spanish inquisition, which quite obscures those ten persecutions, [308] — — — saevit toto Mars impius orbe.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007