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Excerpt from Fortunes of Nigel, And, St. Ronan's Well
And yet, while that spirit of general extravagance seemed at work over a whole kingdom, another and very different sort of men were gradually forming the staid and resolved characters which afierwards displayed themselves during the civil wars, and powerfully regulated and affected the character of the whole English nation, until, rushing from one extreme to an other, they sunk in a gloomy fanaticism the splendid traces of the reviving fine arts.
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