St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles, Volumen 1A. and C. Black, 1898 - 659 páginas |
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Página 115 - I am ready to die," replied the primate, "for God and the Church; but I warn you, I curse you in the name of God Almighty, if you do not let my men escape.
Página 84 - The knights who had been checked for a moment by the sight of the closed door, on seeing it unexpectedly thrown open, rushed into the church. It was, we must remember, about five o'clock in a winter evening ; the shades of night were gathering, and were deepened into a still darker gloom within the high and massive walls of the vast cathedral, which was only illuminated here and there by the solitary lamps burning before the altars. The twilight, lengthening from the shortest day a fortnight before,...
Página 138 - ARCHBISHOP'S mitre, and wounds him in the forehead. Becket (covers his eyes with his hand}. I do commend my cause to God, the Virgin, St. Denis of "France and St. Alphege of England, And all the tutelar Saints of Canterbury.
Página 73 - At this sight, so unwonted in the peaceful cloisters of Canterbury, not probably beheld since the time when the monastery had been sacked by the Danes, the monks within, regardless of all remonstrances, shut the door of the cathedral, and proceeded to barricade it with iron bars. A loud knocking was heard from the terrified...
Página 137 - Benedict within the chapel. It is a proof of the confusion of the scene, that Grim, the receiver of the blow, as well as most of the narrators, believed it to have been dealt by Fitzurse, while Tracy, who is known to have been the man from his subsequent boast, believed that the monk whom he had wounded was John of Salisbury.
Página 116 - It was hopeless to carry on the attempt to remove him. And in the final struggle™ which now began, Fitzurse, as before, took the lead. But, as he approached with his drawn sword, the sight of him kindled afresh the Archbishop's anger, now heated by the fray ; the spirit of the chancellor rose within him, and with a coarse epithet, not calculated to turn away his adversary's wrath, he exclaimed, " You profligate wretch, you are my man — you have done me fealty — you ought not to touch me.
Página 137 - King," 4 and waving the sword over his head, cried " Strike, strike ! " (" Ferez, ferez "), but merely dashed off his cap. The Archbishop covered his eyes with his joined hands, bent his neck, and said,* " I commend my cause and the cause of the Church to God, to St. Denys the martyr of France, to St. Alfege, and to the saints of the Church.
Página 41 - The dialogue was interrupted by one of the monks rushing in to announce that the knights were arming. ' Let them arm,' said Becket. But in a few minutes the violent assault on the door of the hall, and the crash of a wooden partition in the passage from the orchard, announced that the danger was close at hand.
Página 73 - They fell back a few paces, and he stepped within the door, but, finding the whole place thronged with people, he paused on the threshold, and asked, " What is it that these people 10 fear ? " One general answer broke forth, " The armed men in the cloister.
Página 169 - Without moving hand or foot,5 he fell flat on his face as he spoke, in front of the corner wall of the chapel, and with such dignity that his mantle, which extended from head to foot, was not disarranged. In this posture he received from Richard the Breton a tremendous blow, accompanied with the exclamation (in allusion to a quarrel of Becket with Prince William) ' Take f this for love of my Lord William, brother of the King.