The Lollards: A Tale, Founded on the Persecutions which Marked the Early Part of the Fifteenth Century, Volum 3

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822
 

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Pàgina 208 - As when a spark Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid Fit for the tun, some magazine to store Against a rumoured war, the smutty grain, With sudden blaze diffused, inflames the air ; So started up in his own shape the fiend.
Pàgina 122 - Which is far a this side heaven, by God : There your labour and pardon is odd. With small cost without any pain, These pardons bring them to heaven plain : Give me but a penny or two-pence, And as soon as the soul departeth hence, In half an hour, or three quarters at the most, The soul is in heaven with the Holy Ghost.
Pàgina 263 - Sorrow and fury, like two opposite fumes, Met in the upper region of a cloud, At the report made by this worthy's fall, Brake from the earth, and with them rose revenge...
Pàgina 87 - But where ye doubt, the truth not knowing, Believing the best, good may be growing. In judging the best, no harm at the least : In judging the worst, no good at the best. But best in these things it seemeth to me, To make no judgment upon ye; But as the church does judge or take them, So do ye receive or forsake them. And so be you sure you cannot err, But may be a fruitful follower.
Pàgina 139 - Now shall my practice be, quoth she. True vertue and humility. My patience I will put in ure, My charity I will extend ; Since for my woe there is no cure, The helpless now I will befriend: The widow and the fatherless I will relieve, when in distress.
Pàgina 329 - The doctrine declared in the second commandment that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children, was a matter of faith to those to whom it was given.
Pàgina 69 - After having treated of these false zealots in religion, I cannot forbear mentioning a monstrous species of men, who one would not think had any existence in nature, were they not to be met with...
Pàgina 54 - He look'd upon her, and her hurried gaze Was at his look dropp'd instant on the ground ; But o'er her cheek of beauty rush'da blaze, Her bosom heaved above its silken bound, As if the soul had felt some sudden wound. He looked again ; the cheek was deadly pale; The bosom sank with one long sigh profound...
Pàgina 54 - He looked upon her, and her humid gaze Was at his look dropped instant on the ground : But o'er her cheek of beauty rushed a blaze, Her bosom heaved within its silken bound — And though her voice is trembling as I sigh, Love triumphs in her smile and fond delicious eye.
Pàgina 310 - Now have I gain'd my noblest aim at last : Now do I view with joy my sorrows past. Yet oft my former woe shall cause a sigh, And sad remembrance busy pride deny...

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