"Galilaean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... neglect, the orders of an irritated master. The archbishop prudently retired to the monasteries of the Desert; eluded, with his usual dexterity, the snares of the enemy; and lived to triumph over the ashes of a prince, who, in words of formidable import, had declared his wish that the whole venom of the Galilaean school were contained in the single person of ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... "O Galilaean, Thou hast conquered," were the words that came to her when the crucial test had been passed, and she had parted ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... the lips of Proserpine, And sung the Galilaean's requiem, That wounded forehead dashed with blood and wine He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him Have found their last, most ardent worshipper, And the new Sign grows grey and ...
— Poems • Oscar Wilde
... One who spent the first thirty years of His life in an obscure Galilaean village, and who in early manhood worked as a carpenter in a village shop. He first came forward in public in connexion with a religious revival initiated by John the Baptist. He was baptized in the Jordan. What His baptism meant to Him is symbolized by the account of a vision which He saw, and ...
— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson
... kissed the lips of Proserpine, And sung the Galilaean's requiem, That wounded forehead dashed with blood and wine He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him Have found their last, most ardent worshipper, And the new Sign grows grey ...
— Poems • Oscar Wilde |
