[163] This was an anachronism in costume which in our day would not be pardonable, but it was common enough until within half a century ago. The queen of James I., Anne of Denmark, insisted upon playing the part of Thetis, goddess of the ocean, in a “monstrous farthingale” (in modern speech, a very exaggerated crinoline.)
[164] Puttenham, Art of Poesie, pub. in 1589, quoted in Ritson.
[165] Probably some coarse lace or net
[166] The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation.
[167] Harmless
[168] Agnes Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England.
[169] Penny Magazine, 1834.
[170] This word has no English equivalent; it means the casting out of the heart—a hyperbolical manner of expressing the most excessive nausea.
[171] The Council of Trent decreed nothing on the subject of the authority of the church: that of the Vatican had to supply the omission. The struggle with Protestantism on this subject reached its last stage in the definition of the dogma of Papal Infallibility decreed by the church assembled at the Council of the Vatican.
[172] In its numbers of April 22 and May 16 last the Unità Cattolica passed a high eulogium on the work of Father Hecker. “There is in this work,” says the Abbé Margotti, “a great boldness of thought, but always governed by the faith, and by the great principle of the infallible authority of the Pope.”