TancredusE. Lumley, 1846 |
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... Charlemagne first attacked the Saxon pagans , in the year 772 , it was in consequence of their having burnt the ... Charlemagne's court . Το go back to an earlier age , it is a pity that we have no memorial of the many Christians who ...
... Charlemagne first attacked the Saxon pagans , in the year 772 , it was in consequence of their having burnt the ... Charlemagne's court . Το go back to an earlier age , it is a pity that we have no memorial of the many Christians who ...
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... Charlemagne bore the shield azure , charged with the black eagle and the fleur - de - lis or . The old royal seals of St. Louis have only one fleur - de - lis . The Chevalier de la Roque takes care to shew , that several French and ...
... Charlemagne bore the shield azure , charged with the black eagle and the fleur - de - lis or . The old royal seals of St. Louis have only one fleur - de - lis . The Chevalier de la Roque takes care to shew , that several French and ...
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... Charlemagne it was that of St. Maurice . Father Campian takes another view , when he says , speak- ing of the princes who in various ages defended the Church , " How many Theodosiuses in the East , and Charleses in the West , how many ...
... Charlemagne it was that of St. Maurice . Father Campian takes another view , when he says , speak- ing of the princes who in various ages defended the Church , " How many Theodosiuses in the East , and Charleses in the West , how many ...
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... dispensers mercy . We have another instance , in the last advice Charlemagne to his son , as related by Theganus . " K the Sunday he put on the royal robe , placed his crown his head , and assumed a superb habit ; he 72 TANCREDUS .
... dispensers mercy . We have another instance , in the last advice Charlemagne to his son , as related by Theganus . " K the Sunday he put on the royal robe , placed his crown his head , and assumed a superb habit ; he 72 TANCREDUS .
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... Charlemagne . nearest lord was appointed to protect the abbey . times princes discharged the office . Thus the Emperor Lewis of Germany was guardian of St. Gall , and Otho of the abbey of Gomblon in Brabant . The greatest lords ac ...
... Charlemagne . nearest lord was appointed to protect the abbey . times princes discharged the office . Thus the Emperor Lewis of Germany was guardian of St. Gall , and Otho of the abbey of Gomblon in Brabant . The greatest lords ac ...
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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 221 - At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze ; While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too some pilgrim, thither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed.
Page 336 - Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.
Page 336 - To serve to wicked men, to serve His wicked foe! How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
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.
Page 393 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 114 - 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 200 - Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt qui scire volunt, ut sciantur ipsi: et turpis vanitas est [...]. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quaestus est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut aedificent: et caritas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut aedificentur: et prudentia est.
Page 351 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.
Page 217 - St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. "Then shall the King say unto them on His left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.