Excerpt from The Cathedral: Or the Catholic and Apostolic Church in England The Excursion, in his Preface to that work, that his Poems might be considered as capable of being arranged as the parts of a Gothic Church, of which the minor pieces might be likened to the little cells, orato ries, and sepulchral recesses. The present design has been to execute such a plan by a selection of subjects, more or less appropriate to the parts which they are made to repre sent, from the Liturgy, and the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church; care beingtaken to adhere as much as possible to the relative proportions of such a structure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.