British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England |
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abbas abbatis Abbey Abbot æra afterwards Altar Anchorets Angl Anglo-Saxon baculum bell Benedictine benediction Bishop Bodl bowed bread brethren called Cange canonical hours Canons celebrated cell century Chantor Chaplain Chapter Choir chorum Christ Church Claud Cleop Cloister cloth common Complin confession Convent Cott crosier cross Diddlebury dinner divine service Dormitory drink Du Cange Eadmer ejus feasts Fosbroke fratres fuerit Gilbertine Golden Legend Gospel habit hands Harl Hist holy hood Infirmary King kiss Lanfr Lent licet Lord Mass master Mattins monachi Monast Monastery Monks night Novices Nuns omnes Paris persons pilgrimage Pilgrims prayers Priest Prior procession psalms quæ quod received refection Refectory religious robe Rule Sacr Sacrist Saints says Script Scriptores secular servants Sext sick silence singing Sunday sung ther thing Tierce tion tunc Vespers visitors washed wine
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Page 419 - Tempe's vale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing, While, as his flying fingers kissed the strings, Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Page 2 - ... have always the utmost abhorrence and detestation of such excesses, which their experience tells them are so immediately fatal to people of their condition. The disorder and extravagance of several years, on the contrary, will not always ruin a man of fashion, and people of that rank are very apt to consider the power of indulging in some degree of excess as one of the advantages of their fortune, and the liberty of doing so without censure or reproach, as one of the privileges which belong to...
Page 2 - ... adopted by those sects almost constantly, or with very few exceptions ; for there have been some. It was the system by which they could best recommend themselves to that order of people to whom they first proposed their plan of reformation upon what had been before established. Many of them, perhaps the greater part of them, have even endeavoured to gain credit by refining upon this austere system, and by carrying it to some degree of folly and extravagance ; and this excessive rigour has frequently...
Page 1 - In every civilised society, in every society where the distinction of ranks has once been completely established, there have been always two different schemes or systems of morality current at the same time; of which the one may be called the strict or austere; the other the liberal, or, if you will, the loose system. The former is generally admired and revered by the common people: the latter ь commonly more esteemed and adopted by what are called people of fashion.
Page 31 - O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing ; let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them.
Page 324 - When mad people were brought to be dipped in the saint's pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the chapel, bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head with great solemnity. It was the popular opinion that, if stolen, it would extricate itself out of the thief s hands, and return home, ringing all the way. For some years past this bell has been locked up, to prevent its being used for superstitious...
Page 1 - The vices of levity are always ruinous to the common people, and a single week's thoughtlessness and dissipation is often sufficient to undo a poor workman for ever, and to drive him, through despair, upon committing the most enormous crimes. The wiser and better sort...
Page 150 - A hasty portion of prescribed sleep ; Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep, And sing, and sigh ; and work, and sleep again, , Still rolling a round sphere of still returning pain : Hands full of hearty labours ; pains that pay, And prize themselves, do much that more they may, ' And work for work, not wages...
Page 300 - ... matter — and the surgeon separating the head from the body, because the coffin had been made too short ! He stood for a moment motionless in amazement, and filled with...
Page 1 - ... injustice, are generally treated with a good deal of indulgence, and are easily either excused or pardoned altogether. In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation.