The Passion play [at Oberammergau].

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Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1872 - 134 Seiten
 

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Seite 79 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Seite 70 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that...
Seite 74 - And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. 6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
Seite 39 - ... to God, and registered a solemn vow that if He heard their cry, and removed the plague, they would represent every ten years, " for thankful remembrance and edifying contemplation, and by the help of the Almighty, the sufferings of Jesus, the Saviour of the world.
Seite 96 - THEN the Lord holding Adam by the hand, delivered him to Michael the archangel; and he led them into Paradise, filled with mercy and glory; 2 And two very ancient men met them, and were asked by the saints, Who are ye, who have not yet been with us in hell, and have had your bodies placed in Paradise?
Seite 47 - A man of lofty stature, of serious and imposing countenance, inspiring love as well as fear in those who behold him. His hair is the colour of wine (meaning probably of a...
Seite 47 - His hair is the colour of wine (meaning probably of a straw colour), straight and without lustre as low as the ears, but thence glossy and, curly flowing upon the shoulders and divided down the centre of the head, after the manner of the Nazarenes. The forehead is smooth and serene, the face without blemish, of a pleasant, slightly ruddy colour. The expression noble and engaging. The nose and mouth of perfect form ; the beard abundant, and of the same colour as the hair, parted in the middle.
Seite 108 - With reference to theatrical performances by the clergy, it is affirmed in the Beehive of the Romish Church, that, " Christ hath not done anie thing in his death and passion, but they do plaie and counterfeite the same after him, so trimlie and livelie, that no plaier nor juggler is able to doe it better.
Seite 41 - Wirf zum heiligen Staunen dich nieder, Von Gottes Fluch gebeugtes Geschlecht! Friede dir! aus Sion Gnade wieder! Nicht ewig ziirnet Er, Der Beleidigte. — Ist sein Ziirnen gleich gerecht. Ich will...

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