From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

oof. When Calvin had fulfilled his career, and his
name and doctrine were spreading over the earth,
she was wont to dilate with evident pleasure in his
devotion to study, on the beauty of his life, and the
charms of his genius. He seldom went out,[13] and
when he did so it was to steal away across the
Rhine, and wander among the pines on the eastern
hill, whence he could gaze on the city and its
environing valleys, and the majestic river whose
"eternal" flow formed the link between the
everlasting hills of its birth-place, and the great
ocean where was its final goal -- nay, between the
successive generations which had flourished upon
its banks:, from the first barbarian races which had
drunk its waters, to the learned men who were
filling the pulpits, occupying the university chairs,
or working the printing-presses of the city below
him.
Calvin had found at last his "obscure corner,"
and he jealously preserved his incognito.
(Ecolampadius, the first Reformed Pastor of Basle,
was now, as we have said, in his grave; but Oswald
Myconius, the friend of Zwingli, had taken his
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