The Age of Hildebrand

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Christian Literature Company, 1896 - 457 pages
 

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Page 182 - Or questi , che dall' infima lacuna Dell' universo insin qui ha vedute Le vite spiritali ad una ad una , Supplica a te per grazia di virtute Tanto che possa con gli occhi levarsi Più alto verso 1
Page 290 - Schlosse Hält er verzaubert sich. Er ist niemals gestorben, Er lebt darin noch jetzt; Er hat im Schloß verborgen Zum Schlaf sich hingesetzt. Er hat hinabgenommen Des Reiches Herrlichkeit Und wird einst wiederkommen Mit ihr zu seiner Zeit.
Page 422 - Quegli ch' usurpa in terra il luogo mio, II luogo mio, il luogo mio che vaca Nella presenza del Figliuol di Dio, Fatto ha del cimiterio mio cloaca Del sangue e della puzza, onde 'l perverso Che cadde di quassù laggiù si placa'. Di quel color che per lo sole avverso Nube dipinge da sera e da mane, Vid...
Page 65 - beloved brethren, that since the days of the blessed Leo this tried and prudent Archdeacon has exalted the Roman See, and delivered this city from many perils. Wherefore, since we cannot find any one better qualified for the government of the Church or the protection of the city, we, the bishops and cardinals, with one voice elect him as the pastor and bishop of your souls.
Page 384 - Before he had begun to make the earth Some comfort from his mighty virtue feel. For he in youth his father's wrath incurred For certain Dame, to whom, as unto death, The gate of pleasure no one doth unlock; And was before his spiritual court Et coram patre unto her united; Then day by day more fervently he loved her.
Page 121 - Church the mere desecrated spoil and merchandise of princes : he reduced it within the dominion of the Supreme Pontiff. He is celebrated as the reformer of the impure and profane abuses of his age : he is more justly entitled to the praise of having left the impress of his own gigantic character on the history of all the ages which have succeeded him.
Page 401 - The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished in these costly and perilous expeditions. Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most mimerous and useful part of the community.
Page 69 - Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Page 10 - Ah, Constantine! of how much ill was mother, Not thy conversion, but that marriage dower Which the first wealthy Father took from thee!
Page 120 - He found the Papacy dependent on the empire : he sustained it by alliances almost commensurate with the Italian peninsula. He found the Papacy electoral by the Roman people and clergy : he left it electoral by a college of papal nomination. He found the emperor the virtual patron of the holy see : he wrested that power from his hands. He found the secular clergy the allies and de]>endants of the secular power : he converted them into the inalienable auxiliaries of his own.

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