"Black Death" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never know How the times away do go; But for us, who wisely see Where the bounds of black death be, Let's live merrily, and thus Gratify ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... had been killed in Edward's French and Scottish wars that there were too few left to till the land. Then came a terrible disease called the Black Death, slaying young and old, rich and poor, until nearly half the people ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... the Poisoner! Nicolo the Black Death! I am coming for the soul you sold me. There ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... unprecedented except in its Indian abode, whence it had advanced city by city, seaport by seaport, sweeping down multitudes before it; nor had science yet discovered how to encounter or forestall it. We heard of it in a helpless sort of way, as if it had been the plague or the Black Death, and thought of ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... calamity at once so sudden and of such appalling magnitude as the famine which in the spring and summer of 1770 nearly exterminated the ancient civilization of Bengal. It presents that aspect of preternatural vastness which characterizes the continent of Asia and all that concerns it. The Black Death of the fourteenth century was, perhaps, the most fearful visitation which has ever afflicted the Western world. But in the concentrated misery which it occasioned the Bengal famine surpassed it, even as the Himalayas dwarf by comparison the highest peaks ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske
... in themselves to hurt their lord and master man,"[2] unless man first poisoned himself with sin; and when, in consequence of this ignorance and this false philosophy, and the inevitable neglect attendant upon them, those fearful plagues known as "the Black Death" could, almost without notice, sweep down upon a country, and decimate its inhabitants—it is not wonderful that these terrible scourges were attributed to the malevolence of the ...
— Elizabethan Demonology • Thomas Alfred Spalding
... *28. The Black Death and its Effects.*—During the earlier mediaeval centuries the most marked characteristic of society was its stability. Institutions continued with but slight changes during a long period. With the middle of the fourteenth century changes become more ...
— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney
... Scotland: "He who eats of the Dulse of Guerdie, and drinks of the wells Kindingie, will escape all maladies except black death." This marine weed contains within its cellular structure much iodine, which makes it a specific remedy for scrofulous ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... back to Lorna again (which I always longed to do, and must long for ever), all the change between night and day, all the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation. Quick she had always been and "peart" (as we say on Exmoor) and gifted with a leap of thought too swift for me to ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... days driving before them 700 horses and 1,000 cattle. He assured Sidney, that with 300 additional men, he could so hunt the rebel, that ere May was passed, he should not show his face in Ulster. But the 'Black Death' returned after a brief respite; and, says Mr. Froude, in the reeking vapour of the charnel-house, it was indifferent whether its victims returned in triumph from a stricken field, or were cooped within their walls ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin |
