...attractions that at one time made Palestine the magnet of all Christendom — to visit, I say — " those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blesse'd...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." By degrees, however, as the enthusiasm spent itself, the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into...

...pastures of Lapland and the far North. In the European mind there were two Easts, one the Holy Land— " Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." The other, the region of the Arabian Nights and of romance, the deserts traversed by the seekers for...

...most interesting country in the world, — " Over whose acres walked those Messed feet, Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." It is also the seat of the old Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Could England ever do too much to repay...

...interesting country in the world, — " Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." GREECE. — SOUTH AMERICA. 331 It is also the seat of the old Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Could...

...region of all hallowed associations, " Over whose acres walked those blessed feet• Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.'' Nor did he relinquish all designs of this sort, until he became fully satisfied, that in the high sphere...

...and Fall, c. 64. the Holy Land. At first a deep and earnest enthusiasm drew men thither to visit " those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter Cross." These beautiful words, which Shakespeare puts into the mouth of our Fourth Henry, explain well the...

...the earth whereof it is made." And who has not admired his beautiful reference to Palestine ?— " Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." parts of the town, till at length he was disturbed in his Master's work, and in endeavouring to secure...

...of the religious spirit, which fairly panted, like Shakspeare's Henry IV., "To chase the Pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." still a charm in spiritual knight-errantry and crusading. As the Jew banker at London among his guineas,...

...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...

...hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The mention, in Henry the Fourth, of the Holy Land — • " those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred yearsTago, were njdl'<f,, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." Again, the singfeHfes^n- Winter's...