Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories tr. with preliminary observations and notes, by C. Swan, Volume 11824 |
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... Christ , who , by His Passion , deli- vered us from Hell ..... XLIV . Of Envy ..... XLV . Of the Good , who alone will enter PAGE 150 152 154 155 the Kingdom of Heaven XLVI . Of mortal Sins .... 157 161 XLVII . Of Three Kings ...
... Christ , who , by His Passion , deli- vered us from Hell ..... XLIV . Of Envy ..... XLV . Of the Good , who alone will enter PAGE 150 152 154 155 the Kingdom of Heaven XLVI . Of mortal Sins .... 157 161 XLVII . Of Three Kings ...
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... Christ's love tell me that com- mandment . " We had in commandment said they , upon pain of death , that whosoever came to us first in the morning , and said like as thou hast said , that we should take him and cast him into the furnace ...
... Christ's love tell me that com- mandment . " We had in commandment said they , upon pain of death , that whosoever came to us first in the morning , and said like as thou hast said , that we should take him and cast him into the furnace ...
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... Christ twice born , of his Father , God , and of his mother , Mary , was prefigured by Bacchus , who was first born of Semele , and afterwards of Jupi- ter . And as Minerva sprung from the brain of Jupiter , so Christ proceeded from God ...
... Christ twice born , of his Father , God , and of his mother , Mary , was prefigured by Bacchus , who was first born of Semele , and afterwards of Jupi- ter . And as Minerva sprung from the brain of Jupiter , so Christ proceeded from God ...
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Romani. shore after three days . Here was an obvious symbol of Christ's resurrection . John Wa- leys , an English Franciscan of the thirteenth century , in his moral exposition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , affords many other instances ...
Romani. shore after three days . Here was an obvious symbol of Christ's resurrection . John Wa- leys , an English Franciscan of the thirteenth century , in his moral exposition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , affords many other instances ...
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... CHRIST ; as the apostle says , 1 Tim , ii . " There is one media- tor between God and man , the Man Christ Jesus . " The son of the king is CHRIST . So the Psalmist witnesses- " Thou art my son , this day have I begotten thee . " Christ ...
... CHRIST ; as the apostle says , 1 Tim , ii . " There is one media- tor between God and man , the Man Christ Jesus . " The son of the king is CHRIST . So the Psalmist witnesses- " Thou art my son , this day have I begotten thee . " Christ ...
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Page 380 - That generous actions meet a base reward. " While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds j A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wand'ring pair retreat, To seek for shelter at a neighb'ring seat.
Page 375 - Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by Cervantes. But, in times of oppression, when every one followed " the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can...
Page 356 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 383 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air ; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light.
Page 382 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 147 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 385 - Heaven can bless, if mortals will be kind. Conscious of wanting worth, he views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.
Page 71 - Come unto me all ye that labour, and I will give you rest.
Page 379 - As one who spies a serpent in his way, Glistening and basking in the summer ray, Disorder'd stops to shun the danger near, Then walks with...
Page 381 - Twas there a vice, and seem'da madness here : Detesting that, and pitying this, he goes, Lost and confounded with the various shows. Now night's dim shades again involve the sky, Again the wanderers want a place to lie, Again they search, and find a lodging nigh : The soil improv'd around, the mansion neat, And neither poorly low, nor idly great : It seem'd to speak its master's turn of mind, Content, and not for praise, but virtue kind.