"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like any priest, Can shrive the dying or bury the dead, But dearer to me to raise the Beast Or watch the gold in ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... you half an hour, senor padre. That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he closed ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston
... To chant o'er a bottle or shrive a lass; No matin's bell called them up in the morn, But the yell of the hounds and sound of the horn; No penance the monk in his cell could stay But a broken leg or a rainy day: The pilgrim that came to the abbey-door, With the feet of the fallow-deer found it nailed ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
... For the French the Pope may shrive 'em, For the devil a whit we heed 'em, As for the French, God speed 'em Unto their hearts' desire, And the merry devil drive 'em Through the water ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... with laughter? "You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a bantam cock all in one," I jeered at him. "No wonder that I feel you need a priest to shrive you;" and I laughed again, and would not notice the hurt shining of his eyes as I ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
... dying, and he to hear his last confession, he the priest to shrive him, he the preacher to console him! The boy lifted up his first true prayer for months, and followed the man upstairs to a low garret room, where the door closed behind him and left him alone with a weak old man lying on a low bed, his eyes ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher
... glorious show![400] On its table still behold The cup of consecrated gold; Massy and deep, a glittering prize, 1000 Brightly it sparkles to plunderers' eyes: That morn it held the holy wine,[qp] Converted by Christ to his blood so divine, Which his worshippers drank at the break of day,[qq] To shrive their souls ere they joined in the fray. Still a few drops within it lay; And round the sacred table glow Twelve lofty lamps, in splendid row, From the purest metal cast; A spoil—the richest, ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron
... unmuscled cheeks!—dropt their under jaws!—each grunting like the swine he had resembled in his life! Oh! what a vile wretch have I been! Oh! that I had my life to come over again!—Confessing to the poor old woman, who cannot shrive them! Imaginary ghosts of deflowered virgins, and polluted matrons, flitting before their glassy eyes! And old Satan, to their apprehensions, grinning behind a looking-glass held up before them, to frighten them with the horror ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson
... [58.] Shrieve, shrive, hear confession and pronounce absolution. In the earlier ages of the Christian Church it was not uncommon for men to live as hermits, devoting themselves to ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various
... sentences. "Water—nay—no pain," he added then, and Ambrose ran for some water in the first battered fragment of a tin pot he could find. They bathed his face and he gathered strength after a time to say, "A priest!—oh for a priest to shrive and ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and grieved thy good GOD, and hast barred thyself against the grace that should help thee. And then, with a repenting of those sins that bite thy conscience, knock on thy breast and say a Pater noster with Ave Maria, on thy knees, and soon in the morning shrive thee of those sins. And if thou doest thus, I hope the fiend shall be afeared to tempt thee, for thou art under GOD'S ward, whilst thou bearest thee thus. After this reckoning, where-through thy soul is raised to a blessed hope to the Father of mercy, ...
— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises • Richard Rolle of Hampole |
