Grey of Greybury; a novel, Band 1

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Seite 199 - God bless the King, — I mean the Faith's Defender, God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender! But who Pretender is, and who the King, — God bless us all ! — that's quite another thing.
Seite 34 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Seite 128 - God, place thee in the ever-verdant lawns of His Paradise ; and may He, the true Shepherd, acknowledge thee for one of His flock. May He absolve thee from all thy sins, and place thee at His right hand in the midst of His Elect.
Seite 40 - Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly," 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to show when you are there."
Seite 128 - Mayest thou never know the horror of darkness, the erackling of flames, or racking torments. May the most wicked enemy, with all his evil spirits, be forced to give way ; may he tremble at thine approach in the company of angels, and fly away into the vast chaos of eternal night. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face : as smoke...
Seite 128 - Him, whose creature thou art, that, when thou shalt have paid the debt of all mankind by death, thou mayest return to thy Maker, Who formed thee from the dust of the earth.
Seite 128 - Thy reconciliation, Through CHRIST our LORD. Amen. I recommend thee, dear brother, to the ALMIGHTY GOD, and commit thee to His care, whose creature thou art ; that when thou shalt have paid the debt of all mankind by death, thou mayest return to thy Maker, who formed thee of the dust of the earth.
Seite 73 - Baldwins were lords of the level land which stretches north and south and east and west as far as the eye can see from the summit of the Belfry.
Seite 212 - ... revolutions, all history is almost equal for those who only wish to store their memories with facts. But whoever thinks, or (what is more rare) whoever possesses taste, only counts four centuries in the history of the world."1* These four centuries are the classical age of Greece, the Augustan age of Rome, the age of the Renaissance in Italy, and the age of Louis XIV.
Seite 130 - But even yet he could not rid himself of the impression that there was something...

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