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

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John Morgan, 1862 - 488 ページ

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414 ページ - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
415 ページ - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps : Fire, and hail ; snow, and vapour ; stormy wind fulfilling his word...
213 ページ - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
336 ページ - 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.
360 ページ - 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.
347 ページ - God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
49 ページ - 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...
89 ページ - 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;...
480 ページ - 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
235 ページ - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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