Curious Myths of the Middle AgesHurst, 1889 - 272 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... porter of the hall in Pilate's service , as Jesus was going out of the door , impiously struck Him on the back with his hand , and said in mockery , " Go quicker , Jesus , go quicker ; why do you loiter ? The Wandering Jew . 7.
... porter of the hall in Pilate's service , as Jesus was going out of the door , impiously struck Him on the back with his hand , and said in mockery , " Go quicker , Jesus , go quicker ; why do you loiter ? The Wandering Jew . 7.
Pagina 11
... hand , and much resembling a dervish in appear- ance . After having courteously saluted him , Fadhi- lah asked the old man who he was . Thereupon the stranger answered , " Bassi Hadhret Issa , I am here by command of the Lord Jesus ...
... hand , and much resembling a dervish in appear- ance . After having courteously saluted him , Fadhi- lah asked the old man who he was . Thereupon the stranger answered , " Bassi Hadhret Issa , I am here by command of the Lord Jesus ...
Pagina 28
... hand , the curse of a deathless life has passed on the Wild Huntsman , because he desired to chase the red - deer for evermore ; on the Captain of the Phantom Ship , because he vowed he would double the Cape whether God willed it or not ...
... hand , the curse of a deathless life has passed on the Wild Huntsman , because he desired to chase the red - deer for evermore ; on the Captain of the Phantom Ship , because he vowed he would double the Cape whether God willed it or not ...
Pagina 58
... hand , could discover springs with the utmost precision and facility , and could trace on the surface of the ground ... hands , bow itself and turn visibly in the direction of water or metal , with more or less promptitude , according as ...
... hand , could discover springs with the utmost precision and facility , and could trace on the surface of the ground ... hands , bow itself and turn visibly in the direction of water or metal , with more or less promptitude , according as ...
Pagina 59
... hand in motion . " The Sieur le Royer , a lawyer of Rouen , in 1674 , published his " Traité du Bâton universel , " in which he gives an account of a trial made with the rod in the presence of Father Jean François , who had ridiculed ...
... hand in motion . " The Sieur le Royer , a lawyer of Rouen , in 1674 , published his " Traité du Bâton universel , " in which he gives an account of a trial made with the rod in the presence of Father Jean François , who had ridiculed ...
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Pagina 311 - the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in building
Pagina 195 - Cal. I have seen thee in her; and I do adore thee. My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush." The dog I have myself had pointed out to me by an old Devonshire crone. If popular superstition places a dog in the moon, it puts a lamb in
Pagina 402 - set them downe, and in one of their laps King Arthur laide his head. And then that queene said, ' Ah ! deer brother, why have ye tarried so long from me? Alas ! this wound on your head hath taken over much cold." And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bedivere
Pagina 225 - The odious stranger, disguising every circumstance of time and place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero ; and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, and of the Garter.
Pagina 401 - take the little bed on which I died For Lancelot's love, and deck it like the Queen's For richness, and me also like the Queen In all I have of rich, and lay me on it. And let there be prepared a chariot-bier To take me to the river, and a barge Be ready on the river, clothed in black.
Pagina 195 - Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in th' moon when time was. " Cal. I have seen thee in her; and I do adore thee. My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush.
Pagina 425 - If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised ; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. But now is Christ risen from the
Pagina 358 - so exemplary for her conjugal affection. Her husband, Sir Richard, and she chanced, during their abode in Ireland, to visit a friend, the head of a sept, who resided in an ancient baronial castle surrounded with a moat. At midnight she was awakened by a ghastly and supernatural scream, and
Pagina 311 - Thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it
Pagina 279 - is still used in Iceland as a magical sign in connection with storms of wind and rain. King Olaf, Longfellow tells us, when keeping Christmas at Drontheim — "O'er his drinking-horn, the sign He made of the Cross Divine, As he drank, and