Month and Catholic Review, Volume 1Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1864 |
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Page 109 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
Page 105 - Self-same," did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never-failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth...
Page 109 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour And not obedient to his honest will. What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
Page 452 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 468 - That Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
Page 478 - Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my name's sake : rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven ;
Page 550 - Those hearts, as they bounded before, In the face of high heav'n to fight over That combat for Freedom once more;— Could the chain for an instant be riven Which tyranny flung...
Page 7 - Have no evil opinion of me for this, you yourself are the cause of it : for my own private revenge I would not do it to him. Seeing then that to obey you, my dear love, I spare neither honour, conscience, hazard, nor greatness, take it, I pray you, in good part.
Page 490 - Let works follow your faith ; thereby to show to the world that you do not only say you have faith, but that you give testimony thereof to the full satisfaction of the godly. I write somewhat the more herein, because perchance you have heretofore heard, or perchance may hereafter hear, false bruits that I was a Papist...
Page 292 - ... feeding. O, said he, you will never live to my age, without you keep yourself in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness ; too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out, that, while one thinks too much of his doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking.