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
| 1862 - 452 pages
...materialized this thought into an actual journey to the land " Over whose acres walked those Messed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." His faith, however much alloyed with superstition, looked beyond what appeared to him as a region of... | |
| 1862 - 538 pages
...religious interest — " The sepulchre of Christ — those holy field* Over whose acres walked the blessed feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage to the bitter cross," § kept alive the devout curiosity of Christendom, and pilgrims continued to... | |
| 1863 - 438 pages
...sacred soil consecrated by the footsteps of the Saviour of Mankind. Let us go " To chase those pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross." SHAKSPBAEB.— Hen. IV. Let us charitably hope that among this great multitude there were some at least... | |
| Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 392 pages
...z. Sentiments derived from the Bible. 131 And in King Henry IF. ist Part, Palestine is described as Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross. Act i. Sc. I . It is remarkable, too, how fully our poet recognized the glorious truth, which too many,... | |
| Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 332 pages
...free us from His Father's wrathful curse. And in King Henry IV. ist Part, Palestine is described as Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross. Act i. Sc. I. It is remarkable, too, how fully our poet recognized the glorious truth, which too many,... | |
| John Kenrick - 1864 - 260 pages
...religious zeal. We may think that pious feeling would be exalted and faith confirmed by residence in " Those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed...fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage to the bloody croes." Henry IV., 1., i. But the contrary effect seems to be produced ; the resident... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 350 pages
...ties of country, braving all the perils of the way, and anxious only to breathe his last — • " In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd For our advantage to the bitter cross." I. The first? cause which I shall allude to, as originating... | |
| Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 396 pages
...Henry IV. ist Part, Palestine is described as Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those hlessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed for our advantage on the bitter cross. Act i. Sc. I . It is remarkable, too, how fully our poet recognized the glorious truth, which too many,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings. Act Hi. Sc. 2. KING HENRY IV. PART I. In those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage, on the bitter cross. Act i. Sc. 1. Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. Act i. Sc. 2. Old father... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1865 - 636 pages
...king in the opening scene declares his intention of levying troops : — To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nai1'd, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. (Act I. Sc, 1.) We need only allude to a similar passage... | |
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