The Broad Stone of Honour: TrancredusB. Quaritch, 1846 - Chivalry |
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... Divine aid • XIII . Religion requiring a hardy life , much abstinence , and simplicity , harmonised with the views of Chivalry . Examples XIV . The profound and solemn spirit of Knights . The pil- grim . Dark views entertained of war ...
... Divine aid • XIII . Religion requiring a hardy life , much abstinence , and simplicity , harmonised with the views of Chivalry . Examples XIV . The profound and solemn spirit of Knights . The pil- grim . Dark views entertained of war ...
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... divine contemplation and of future hope . The excellence of this ancient theology . XXIII . A return to the original subject , shewing that piety is inseparable from the true bent of honour . The piety of the brave in ancient times ...
... divine contemplation and of future hope . The excellence of this ancient theology . XXIII . A return to the original subject , shewing that piety is inseparable from the true bent of honour . The piety of the brave in ancient times ...
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... divine and most exalted principle of virtue . From this period we commence a new history of the human race ; for with eager rapture was this light hailed by the knightly and generous part of men : they had now fresh strength , higher ...
... divine and most exalted principle of virtue . From this period we commence a new history of the human race ; for with eager rapture was this light hailed by the knightly and generous part of men : they had now fresh strength , higher ...
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... divine and unchanging religion of our Christian chivalry has a humanised and a poetical side , towards which the eyes of youth may not have been sufficiently directed . There are many interesting details and reflections furnished by a ...
... divine and unchanging religion of our Christian chivalry has a humanised and a poetical side , towards which the eyes of youth may not have been sufficiently directed . There are many interesting details and reflections furnished by a ...
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... divine majeste ne courouce . " And King Perce- forest says to his knights , that he learned from Pergamon the ancient hermit , that God deserves our love , 66 pour l'amour qu'il a en nous , et non pas pour necessité qu'il ayt de nous ...
... divine majeste ne courouce . " And King Perce- forest says to his knights , that he learned from Pergamon the ancient hermit , that God deserves our love , 66 pour l'amour qu'il a en nous , et non pas pour necessité qu'il ayt de nous ...
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Page 375 - 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 318 - But, oh ! the exceeding grace Of Highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace ; That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 180 - 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 96 - 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 334 - But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ! The youth who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 318 - 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...
Page 161 - 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 235 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
Page 154 - 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 208 - ... 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.