The Rambler; A Catholic Journal and Review, Vol. 4: Of Home and Foreign Literature, Politics, Science, Music, and the Fine Arts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rambler; A Catholic Journal and Review, Vol. 4: Of Home and Foreign Literature, Politics, Science, Music, and the Fine Arts

Secondly, conversions to our Church, though common enough in the seventeenth century, were of most rare occurrence in the eighteenth, especially among the literati and the high-born; and hence the tyranny of worldly respect, which then was stronger than we can even conceive in these happier days, it required an almost divine heroism in our Stolberg to defy. Thirdly, his change of religion was likely to alienate many an esteemed friend, and to break up his literary connexions - connexions that could not be easily replaced in the religious com munity wherein he now sought a refuge - a community which (for reasons that it is not now here the place to examine) had taken little part in the new spring-tide of German litera ture, and which, with the exception of the estimable poet, the Jesuit Denis, and one or two theologians, had then no bright name to shew in the republic of letters.

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