. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. BRUTE EMANCIPATION. 304. BANDITTI. Of all the saints in the Calendar, none has suffered lessfrom the Reformation than St. Cecilia, the great patronessof Music. Lofty and lowly are her votaries—many andmagnificent are her holiday festivals—and her commonservice is performing at all hours of the day. She has notonly her regular high-priests and priestesses ; but, like theWesleyans, her itinerants and street-missionaries, to makeknown her worship in the highways and in the byeways. BANDITTI. 305 Nor is the homage confined to the people of one creed;—the
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. BRUTE EMANCIPATION. 304. BANDITTI. Of all the saints in the Calendar, none has suffered lessfrom the Reformation than St. Cecilia, the great patronessof Music. Lofty and lowly are her votaries—many andmagnificent are her holiday festivals—and her commonservice is performing at all hours of the day. She has notonly her regular high-priests and priestesses ; but, like theWesleyans, her itinerants and street-missionaries, to makeknown her worship in the highways and in the byeways. BANDITTI. 305 Nor is the homage confined to the people of one creed;—the Protestant exalts her on his barrel-organ—the Catholicwith her tambourine—the wandering Jew with his Pans-pipe and double-drum. The group opposite was sketchedfrom a company of these Strolling Players. It must be confessed that their service is sometimes of akind rather to drive angels higher into heaven, than toentice them earthward; and there are certain retiredstreets—near the Adelphi, for instance—where such half-hourly deductions from the natur
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