 To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.  Overland Monthly - Page 6791895Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 590 pages
...impressed and engaged to fight,) Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. And bootless 'tis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 606 pages
...impressed and engaged to fight,) Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. And bootless 'tis... | |
 | Mrs. L. G. Abell - 1850 - 462 pages
...their return journey to the Mediterranean coast, proceeding overland by way of Jerusalem, across " Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were uail'd For our advantage, on the bitter cross." DR. WATTS. — A monument to the memory of Dr. Watts... | |
 | Joseph Turnley - 1850 - 536 pages
...For, with a power supernal, to chase these Rebels — these pagans — from these holy fields, O'er whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, fourteen hundred years ago, Were, for our salvation, nailed to the Blessed cross. The ancient characteristics of the Arabians were hospitality,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1851 - 172 pages
...well the attractions that at one time made it the magnet of all Christendom, — to visit, I say, " those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." By degrees, however, the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into a mere worldly fashion, and every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 744 pages
...of English shall we levy, Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, And bootless 'tis to tell you — we will go; Therefore... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1851 - 308 pages
...common sense and his measure of information. To him, no description was ever unattractive of that land, "Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which...were nailed For our advantage, on the bitter cross." Not a book upon Palestine was ever thrown aside unopened. Trusting to a like sensibility in many readers,... | |
 | 1852 - 870 pages
...attractions that at one time made Palestine the magnet of all Christendom — to visit, I say — ' those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross.' By degrees, however, as the enthusiasm spent itself, the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1852 - 348 pages
...of English shall we levy Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." IN the mean time the crusade continued to be preached... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1852 - 252 pages
...all Christendom — to visit, I say — " those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those bless6d feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the. bitter cross." By degrees, however, as the enthusiasm spent itself, the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into... | |
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