The Cheshire Pilgrims, Or Sketches of Crusading Life in the Thirteenth Century

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J. Morgan, 1862
 

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Seite 342 - LORD ! who art merciful as well as just, Incline thine ear to me, a child of dust : Not what I would, O Lord ! I offer thee, Alas ! but what I can. Father Almighty, who hast made me man, And bade me look to heaven, for thou art there, Accept my sacrifice and humble prayer. Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition : — My nothingness, my wants, My sins, and my contrition.
Seite 366 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Seite 91 - Brienne ; — cavaliers and footmen, all emulous of fame, all impatient of obedience, all insisting on being led into action, all interchanging bitter contumelies, and all willing to cut each other's throats, if no better employment could be found for their swords. Like another Micaiah, Francis foretold the disastrous results of a combat about to be waged, under the shelter of holy names, but in the wanton insolence of human passion. Like him he saw all Israel scattered like sheep upon the mountains;...
Seite 347 - While to himself each one himself accused: Flower of goodness, root of lasting bliss, Thou well of life, whose streams were purple blood That flowed here, to cleanse the foul amiss Of sinful man, behold this brinish flood, That from my melting heart distilled is ; Receive in gree these tears, O Lord so good, For never wretch with sin so overgone, Had fitter time or greater cause to moan.
Seite 165 - White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee," says Berowne to the princess in Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. 230. There the epithet was a mere compliment : here it is a piece of symbolism. 214. Girt with golden wings. Possibly a reminiscence of Psalm Ixviii. 13: "yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Seite 444 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Seite 51 - BOUND for holy Palestine, Nimbly we brush'd the level brine, All in azure steel array'd ; O'er the wave our weapons play'd, And made the dancing billows glow ; High upon the trophied prow, Many a warrior-minstrel swung His sounding harp, and boldly sung : " Syrian virgins, wail and weep, English Richard ploughs the deep ! Tremble, watchmen, as ye spy From distant towers, with anxious eye, The radiant range of shield and lance Down Damascus...
Seite 173 - How then will it be with them, when we shall gather them together at the day of judgment, of which there is no doubt; and every soul shall be paid that which it hath gained, neither shall they be treated unjustly? Say, O GOD, who possessest the kingdom; thou givest the kingdom unto whom thou wilt, and thou takest away the kingdom from whom thou wilt...
Seite 486 - Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name ; which thing if thou wilt grant me, then shall the righteous resort unto my company. PSALM 143. Domine, exaudi. HEAR my prayer, O LORD, and consider my desire ; hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness
Seite 17 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...

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