The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... thou- sand injuries , it is only by dint of gold and prayers , that they can approach the tomb which has redeemed them . O sorrow , which tears cannot relieve ! O sad predictions of Jeremiah ! The places which ought to resound night and ...
... thou- sand injuries , it is only by dint of gold and prayers , that they can approach the tomb which has redeemed them . O sorrow , which tears cannot relieve ! O sad predictions of Jeremiah ! The places which ought to resound night and ...
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... thou art blessed who canst defend it with thy arm . To be with Tancred was to be in safety ; to be without him in the army was like not being with the army . " Godefrey de Bouillon is thus de- scribed in the same work : " He was rich in ...
... thou art blessed who canst defend it with thy arm . To be with Tancred was to be in safety ; to be without him in the army was like not being with the army . " Godefrey de Bouillon is thus de- scribed in the same work : " He was rich in ...
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... thou hadst raised them to thy Church ! How much worse than they are should I have been , had I been a pagan ! " 3 I have already shewn what was the opinion of Gilles de Rome . This admirable writer was of the Colonna family ; he had ...
... thou hadst raised them to thy Church ! How much worse than they are should I have been , had I been a pagan ! " 3 I have already shewn what was the opinion of Gilles de Rome . This admirable writer was of the Colonna family ; he had ...
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... thou piously receive knighthood in the name of God , and fulfil , to the best of thy power , ac- cording to the letter , what has been taught ? " The squire answered , " I will . " Therefore the Cardinal gave him the following solemn ...
... thou piously receive knighthood in the name of God , and fulfil , to the best of thy power , ac- cording to the letter , what has been taught ? " The squire answered , " I will . " Therefore the Cardinal gave him the following solemn ...
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... thou art , " he says , " if , after thy ancestors have planted the French lilies ( or the roses of England ) amongst the palms of Palestine , sincerely led thereto with the zeal which they bare to their faith , thou betrayest religion ...
... thou art , " he says , " if , after thy ancestors have planted the French lilies ( or the roses of England ) amongst the palms of Palestine , sincerely led thereto with the zeal which they bare to their faith , thou betrayest religion ...
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Page 336 - AND is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts. But O ! th...
Page 198 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 393 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 114 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 179 - I love all waste And solitary places ; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be : And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows.
Page 172 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us. Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Page 291 - I humbly require you, in the honour of the son of the Virgin Mary, and for the love of me, that ye will take mercy of these six burgesses.
Page 226 - ... of education. Yet if we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists ; divinity will still call us heathens.
Page 267 - But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in Defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 9 - For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.