Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A BiographyJ.W. Parker, 1847 - 307 Seiten |
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... person licensed to sell papal indulgences , and who occupies a niche in all the historical or satirical sketches of those times . He lives under the pencil of Chaucer , who commenced his " Can- terbury Tales " within a few years of the ...
... person licensed to sell papal indulgences , and who occupies a niche in all the historical or satirical sketches of those times . He lives under the pencil of Chaucer , who commenced his " Can- terbury Tales " within a few years of the ...
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... person of eminence in his time . 1 See Colin Clout , one of the most fearless outbreaks of indignation and invective to be found in the varied collections of our literature . The good old Caxton marvelled at his knowledge of poets 14 ...
... person of eminence in his time . 1 See Colin Clout , one of the most fearless outbreaks of indignation and invective to be found in the varied collections of our literature . The good old Caxton marvelled at his knowledge of poets 14 ...
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... persons called pardoners " are especially de- nounced.2 The dissolution of the monasteries checked the itinerancy of the friars . But if any im- mediate benefit followed their suppression , it was chiefly negative ; if a corrupted ...
... persons called pardoners " are especially de- nounced.2 The dissolution of the monasteries checked the itinerancy of the friars . But if any im- mediate benefit followed their suppression , it was chiefly negative ; if a corrupted ...
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... persons of his age . Splendid in his muni- ficent encouragement of learning , every stone of St. John's and Christ's ... person of infinite sprightliness and gaiety of spirit , furnishing another illustration of the joyous and sunshiny ...
... persons of his age . Splendid in his muni- ficent encouragement of learning , every stone of St. John's and Christ's ... person of infinite sprightliness and gaiety of spirit , furnishing another illustration of the joyous and sunshiny ...
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... persons who had adorned that age.1 The name of Longland may be joined with Colet , as being , like him , remarkable for the erudition and energy of his preaching . We have , indeed , the authority of Sir Thomas More for the association ...
... persons who had adorned that age.1 The name of Longland may be joined with Colet , as being , like him , remarkable for the erudition and energy of his preaching . We have , indeed , the authority of Sir Thomas More for the association ...
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Seite 130 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and...
Seite 302 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Seite 234 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Seite 130 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Seite 68 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
Seite 16 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Seite 111 - God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him that retires into a battle to meditate, and sets up his closet in the out-quarters of an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in.
Seite 191 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 128 - ... thrusting out his golden horns, like those which decked the brows of Moses when he was forced to wear a veil because himself had seen the face of God ; and still while a man tells the story, the sun gets up higher, till he shews a fair face and a full light...
Seite 115 - I cast anchor, and thinking to ride safely, the storm followed me with so impetuous violence, that it broke a cable, and I lost my anchor. And here again I was exposed to the mercy of the sea, and the gentleness of an element that could neither distinguish things nor persons ; and but that He who stilleth the raging of the sea, M and the noise of his waves...