 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...religious awe, and this is the procession which bears through the streets the last sacrament to the dying Christian : a little tinkling bell warns you of its...holy elements far as the eye can see, while behind nil is in black darkness. It is the custom, on hearing this bell, for everyone to hasten to place lights... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...bears through the streets the last sacrament io the dying Christian : a litlle tinkling bell warns yon of its approach ; voices are heard chanting a hymn...the host, is passing your door through a blaze of ¡ight which precedes the holy elements far as the eye can see, while behind all is in black darkness.... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...religious awe, and this is the procession which bears through the streets the last sacrament to the dying Christian : a little tinkling bell warns you of its...the host, is passing your door through a blaze of fight which precedes the holy elements far as the eye can see, while behind all is in black darkness.... | |
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... tolerant juxtaposition of the rival creeds: — ' One ceremony of the church of Rome, when it takes place at night, may impress even a true-hearted member of the Protestant church of England -with religious awe, and this is the procession which bears... 