 HAIL to thy returning festival, old Bishop Valentine ! Great is thy name in the rubric, thou venerable arch-flamen of Hymen ! Immortal gobetween ! who and what manner of person art thou ? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels...  The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Page 148edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...Л Valenlbu. Hail to thy returning festival, old Bishop Valentine! Great is thy name in the rubric. he truP_ - ij. LAMB. Apollo has peeped through the shutter. And awaken'd the witty and lair; The boarding-school... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...Immortal Go-between ; who and what manner of person art thou ? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection...union? or wert thou indeed a mortal prelate, with thy tippit and the rochet, thy apron on, and decent lawn sleeves ? Mysterious personage ! like unto thee,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - Calendars - 1884 - 396 pages
...twin. Byron. HAIL to thy returning festival, old Bishop Valentine ! Great is thy name in the rubric. Like unto thee, assuredly, there is no other mitred father in the calendar. Lamb. TO-MORROW is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime. Hamlet. IT is a very odd notion,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...Go-between ! who and what manner of person art thou ? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless prineiple which impels poor humans to seek perfection in union?...Jerome, nor Ambrose, nor Cyril ; nor the consigner of undipped infants to eternal torments, Austin, whom all mothers hate ; nor he who hated all mothers,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...immortal Go-between! who and what manner of person art thou ? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection...assuredly, there is no other mitred father in the calendar. — Thou comest attended with thousands and ten thousands of little Loves, and the air is ]3rush'd... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 pages
...Immortal go-between! who and what manner of person art thou? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection...Jerome, nor Ambrose, nor Cyril, nor the consigner of undipped infants to eternal torments, Austin, whom all mothers hate ; nor he who hated all mothers,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection in union? or wcrt thou indeed a mortal prelate, with thy tippet and thy rochet, thy apron on, and decent lawn gleeres? Mysterious personage ! likenntotb.ee, assuredly there is no other mitred father in the calendar... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...Immortal go-between ; who and what manner of person art thou ? Art thou but a name, typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans to seek perfection...thy rochet, thy apron on, and decent lawn sleeves ? CHARLES LAMB. HAIL, Bishop Valentine, whose day this is ; All the air is thy diocese, And all the... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...old Bishop Valentine! Great is thy name in the rubric, Thou venerable arch flamen of Hymen. » * * St. S91 S91 S91 e. CHARLBS LAMB — Es>ay>. Valentine's Day. Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...his compensation. Truly spoke Charles Lamb to the bishop, " Like unto thee, assuredly, there is no mitred father in the calendar; not Jerome, nor Ambrose, nor Cyril; nor the consignor of undipt infants to eternal torments, Austin, whom all mothers hate ; nor he who hated all... | |
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