 ... and every little article of value she possessed, the price of which, in a purse, she laid at the feet of Prince Charles, while, straining her dim eyes to gaze on his features, and pressing his hand to her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed with affectionate...  Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents - Pàgina 283per John Heneage Jesse - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Gabriele Rossetti - 1834 - 280 pàgines
...over again, his saviour and his salvation. And so Cino, his friend, exclaimed, on the coming of Henry, in the words of Simeon : " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." Before the sectarian language underwent its audacious... | |
 | Robert Wilson Evans - 1835 - 398 pàgines
...years with the sight of the complete re-establishment of his altars, and now he might have exclaimed in the words of Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." It was indeed such a termination as few of God's... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...hor shrivelled lips, she exclaimed, with affectionate rapture, in the words of Simeon, " Lord! now lettest thou thy ' ' servant depart in peace ! " It...its force, was the old spirit of loyalty in England I Such were the characters which history is proud to record, and fiction loves to imitate — that... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pàgines
...to her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed with affectionate rapture, in the words of Simeon, 'Lord ! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace !' It is added that she did not survive the shock, when a Tew days aflerwardn, she was told of the retreat.'— ib. pp. 3:31—333. Happily for the honor as... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1845 - 788 pàgines
...her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed with affectionate rapture, in the words of Simeon. ' Lord ! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace ! ' It is...few days afterwards, she was told of the retreat.' — ib , pp. 331 — 333. Happily for the honour as well as the safety of England. such instances of... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed with affectionate rapture, in the words of Simeon, ' Lord ! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace ! ' It is...few days afterwards, she was told of the retreat." On leaving Macclesfield, Lord George Murray found means to deceive the Duke of Cumberland into a belief... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pàgines
...gaze on his features, and pressing his hand to her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed with afleclioriate rapture, in the words of Simeon, 'Lord ! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace !' It is added that ehe did not survive the ehock, 316 when a few days afterwards, she was... | |
 | Wolfgang Menzel - 1849 - 548 pàgines
...city he had won by perfidy and was welcomed by Francis Egon von Fiirstenberg, the traitorous bishop, in the words of Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation ! " The city was strongly garrisoned by the French,... | |
 | William Cutter - 1849 - 476 pàgines
...learned the object of his mission, the aged patriarch raised his hands and eyes to heaven, and exclaimed, in the words of Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." It was concerted, that, as soon as Lafayette had... | |
 | Wolfgang Menzel - 1849 - 546 pàgines
...city he had won by perfidy and was welcomed by Francis Egon von Fiirstenberg, the traitorous bishop, in the words of Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation ! " The city was strongly garrisoned by the French,... | |
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