Legends of the Holy Rood: Symbols of the Passion and Cross-poems : in Old English of the Eleventh, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries

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Richard Morris
N. Truebner and Company, 1871 - 240 من الصفحات

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الصفحة x - I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts...
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الصفحة 221 - The English Charlemagne Romances. From the Auchinleck and other MSS. The Romance of Sir Generides. From the MS. in Trin. Coll., Cambridge. The Romance or Legend of Sir Ypotis. From the Vernon MS.
الصفحة xii - The world is in the form of a cross ; for the east shines above our heads, the north is on the right, the south at the left, and the west stretches out beneath our feet. Birds, that they may rise in the air, extend their wings in the form of a cross ; men, when praying-, or when beating aside the water while swimming, assume the form of a cross. Man differs from the inferior animals in his power of standing erect and extending his arms. A vessel, flying upon the seas, displays her yard-arms in the...
الصفحة xiii - Cross, which th' instrument Of God dewed on me in the Sacrament ? Who can deny me power and liberty To stretch mine arms and mine own Cross to be ? Swim, and at every stroke thou art thy Cross; The mast and yard make one, where seas do toss; Look down, thou spiest out * crosses in small things; Look up, thou seest birds raised on crossed wings.
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الصفحة ii - He engaged in a tournament, and had, for his lady's love, his shield everywhere pierced in battle, like a valorous knight. This shield which covered his godhead was his dear body, that was extended on the cross, broad as a shield above, in his outstretched arms, and narrow beneath, because, as men suppose, the one foot was placed upon the other foot.

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