Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.— FULLER, THOMAS, 1655,... Poems and Essays - Page 566by Charles Lamb - 1879 - 639 pagesFull view - About this book
| Numismatics - 1887 - 256 pages
...brook. Thus, to quote once more the words of Fuller, the Church Historian of Britain : " This brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." One medal gives... | |
| Walter Baxendale - Anecdotes - 1888 - 708 pages
...thorn to ashes, nnd cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrines, which now are dispersed all the world over. — Fuller. 3643.... | |
| R. McWilliam - English literature - 1888 - 136 pages
...ashes were cast into the Swift, which runs by Lutterworth. ' The brook did convey his ashes to the Avon ; Avon into Severn ; Severn into the narrow seas...; they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wyclif were an emblem of his doctrine which is now dispersed all the world over.' ' Wyclif's literary... | |
| Church history - 1889 - 438 pages
...disinterred, burned, and then cast into a neighboring brook. " The brook," says Fuller, " did convey his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ; Severn into...; they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." Wiclif s course,... | |
| Church history - 1890 - 436 pages
...disinterred, burned, and then cast into a neighboring brook. "The brook/' says Fuller, " did convey his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ; Severn into...; they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." Wiclif s course,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...the ashes cast into the Swift. "The brook," says Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, " did convey his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn; Severn into...seas; they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." Although the writings... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...ashes, and these cast into the Swift, a neighhonring hrook rnnaing hard hy; and "thns this hrook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thns the ashes of Wickliffe are the emhlem of The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the... | |
| Thomas Fuller - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1892 - 288 pages
...Doctors, and the servants (so that the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone, amongst so many hands) take what was left out of the grave, and burnt...neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1892 - 648 pages
...into the river. The act was duly performed and as quaint old Fuller remarks: "Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wyclif are the emblems of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." Whether we judge... | |
| Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1893 - 766 pages
...scattered his ashes upon a little brook which flowed through the village. Says Fuller : ' ' Thus the brook conveyed his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ;...of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is dispersed over all the world." During the reign of Richard II. flourished Geoffrey Chaucer, the... | |
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