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Under this my Gregorian chant, and beautiful wax-light phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an abyss of black doubts, scepticism, nay, sans-culottic Jacobinism, an orcus that has no bottom.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various