The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours, and Rouen, in the Summer of 1847; with a Few Memoranda on French Farming, Volumen3R. Bentley, 1848 |
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Página 31 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 67 - ... and faith in thee : increase this knowledge, and confirm this faith in us evermore. Give thy holy Spirit to...
Página 68 - God who at the beginning did create **• our first parents, Adam and Eve, and did sanctify and join them together in marriage ; Pour upon you the riches of his grace, sanctify and bless you, that ye may please him both in body and soul, and live together in holy love unto your lives
Página 39 - La femme est obligee d'habiter avec le mari , et de le suivre partout oü il juge a propos de resider: le mari est oblige de la recevoir, et de lui fournir tout ce qui est necessaire pour les besoins de la vie, selon ses facultes et son etat.
Página 61 - Lord, hear my prayer. And let my cry come unto Thee. The Lord be with you.
Página 281 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Página 74 - OUR help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth, for evermore ; and let all the people say, Amen.
Página 28 - The opulent opening movement of the play sustains this tone with its evocation of the meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Página 91 - Then all at once did from all earth arise Fierce imprecations on that man of sin ; And all the loaded winds came heavy in With exultations and with agonies. From the lone coldness of the widow's bed, The feverish pillow of the orphan's head, From dying men earth's woful valleys heaping, From smouldering cities in their ashes sleeping, Like the hoarse tumbling of a torrent flood Mingled the dismal concord —
Página 63 - Quarcniine, which is lodging and maintenance in his best mansion-house for forty days after his death". Nor is this either a new or an unreasonable privilege; for it was a law of Romulus, the first King of the Romans, that the wedded Wife, who was married to a Man according to the sacred laws, was to have all that he had in common with himself12.