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... saint to whom each day is dedicated in the Roman catholic calen- dars , the names of saints will be given day by day , as they stand under each day in the last edition of their " Lives , " by the Rev. Alban Butler , in 12 vols . 8vo ...
... saint to whom each day is dedicated in the Roman catholic calen- dars , the names of saints will be given day by day , as they stand under each day in the last edition of their " Lives , " by the Rev. Alban Butler , in 12 vols . 8vo ...
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... saint , and called the dead pagan to go with them ; but the body under the saint said he could not , because a pilgrim lay upon him , so that he could not move ; then Macarius , no- thing afraid , beat the body with his fist , and told ...
... saint , and called the dead pagan to go with them ; but the body under the saint said he could not , because a pilgrim lay upon him , so that he could not move ; then Macarius , no- thing afraid , beat the body with his fist , and told ...
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... saint could see the devil , and were greatly edified . It was to be expected that a saint or such miraculous powers in her lifetime should possess them after her death , and accordingly the reputation of her relics is very high ...
... saint could see the devil , and were greatly edified . It was to be expected that a saint or such miraculous powers in her lifetime should possess them after her death , and accordingly the reputation of her relics is very high ...
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... saint blessed the oil , and caused her to bear it home safely notwithstanding . The Golden Legend says , that the people who saw this , mar- velled that the saint could see the devil , and were greatly edified . It was to be expected ...
... saint blessed the oil , and caused her to bear it home safely notwithstanding . The Golden Legend says , that the people who saw this , mar- velled that the saint could see the devil , and were greatly edified . It was to be expected ...
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... saint's clothes , and that " the incisions of the physician , to cut the cord out of his body , were attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of ...
... saint's clothes , and that " the incisions of the physician , to cut the cord out of his body , were attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of ...
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Page 627 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Page 713 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 713 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 489 - Which the great lord inhabits not; and so This grove is wild with tangling underwood, And the trim walks are broken up, and grass, Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths. But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's songs, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all...
Page 1095 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbours would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them.
Page 569 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Page 345 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 527 - Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 569 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Page 867 - A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew; And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night.