"Saint bernard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Filippino Lippi is the Vision of Saint Bernard, in the Badia at Florence, and here again angel-youths are introduced with charming effect. Two are in the rear, with hands clasped in adoration; two are beside the Virgin, bearing the weight of her mantle, and raising their earnest ...
— Child-life in Art • Estelle M. Hurll
... was alone in my chamber sewing, having sent Maria forth to buy certain gear I lacked. And being so alone, I began to sing lowly that hymn of Saint Bernard—'Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur,' [Note 1] when of a sudden I was aroused from my singing by a sound like a groaning, and that very near. I hearkened, and heard it again. One was surely moaning in the next chamber. Thinking that one of the bower-women might ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... enorme quantite de pierre roulees qui remplissent presque tout le haut de ce vallons. Cet amas de pierres provient des glaciers et des hauteurs qui descendent du Mont-Velan, qui est la partie la plus elevee du groupe de montagnes, qui forment le grand Saint Bernard. La sont des neiges et des glaciers de cette partie, fournit aussi la Drance qui va se jetter dans le Rhone au dessous de Martigny. On ne voit de ces pierres roulees qu'en cet endroit, elles viennent directement des ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... he felt himself competent to cope, and his timidity and hesitation in matters of war, is astounding. But it is a common phenomenon with the worker of miracles and indicates the limit of faith at which the saint or prophet has always betrayed the impostor. For example: Saint Bernard, when he preached in 1146 the Second Crusade, made miraculous cures by the thousand, so much so that there was danger of being killed in the crowds which pressed upon him. And yet this same saint, when chosen by the crusaders four years later, in 1150, to lead them ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
... left but one frail arch, Yet mourn thou not its cells: Our time a fair exchange has made; Hard by, in hospitable shade, A reverend pilgrim dwells, Well worth the whole Bernardine brood That e'er wore sandal, frock, or hood.) Yet did Saint Bernard's Abbot there Give Marmion entertainment fair, And lodging for his train and Clare. Next morn the baron climbed the tower, To view afar the Scottish power, Encamped on Flodden edge: The white pavilions made a show, Like remnants of the winter snow, Along the dusky ridge. Long ...
— Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field • Walter Scott |
