"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... admission; confiteor; shrift; exomologesis. Associated Words: shrive, shrift, confessional, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... /condition:/ disposition, temper. So in The Merchant of Venice, I, ii, 143: "If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me." Cf. the term 'ill-conditioned,' still in use to describe an irascible or quarrelsome disposition. In l. 236 'condition' ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare
... laid, Fair Ladye. I dare avouch my faith is bright That God doth right and God hath might, Nor time hath changed His hair to white, Nor His dear love to spite, Fair Ladye. I doubt no doubts: I strive, and shrive my clay, And fight my fight in the patient modern way For true love and for thee—ah me! and pray To be thy knight until my dying day, Fair Ladye," Said that knightly horn, and spurred away Into the thick ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various
... I—(heav'n shrive the lie!) "to tell the secret truth, 'Twas my unhappy fortune once to over-ride a youth! A playful child,—so full of life!—a little fair-haired boy, His sister's pet, his father's hope, his mother's darling joy! Ah me! the frantic shriek she gave! I hear it ringing ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... these strangers here, These dying men to soothe and cheer? To do what mortal skill may do To lighten their burdens of grief and woe; To shrive these dying souls of blame, To bid them hope in Heaven above. Who hath sent these in my dear name To do this holiest work of love? Hath the treasure here given been paid by those Whose 'wrongs' are so earnestly plead by you? Or hath it been done by their ...
— Nothing to Say - A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing - to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear' • QK Philander Doesticks
... Forgiveness and help, by whatso means I can regain the joy of peace with God." "The Lord hath mercy on the penitent. 'Although thy sins be scarlet,' He hath said, 'Will I not make them white as wool?' Confess, And I will shrive you." Thus the good priest moved Towards the remorseful knight and pressed his hand. But shrinking down, he drew his fingers back From the kind palm, and kissed the friar's feet. "Thy pure hand is anointed, and can heal. The cool, calm ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus
... you can shrive these men of mine, And, I pray you, shrive them fast, And shrive those hardy sons of the brine, Captain and mates of the EGLANTINE, And sailors before the mast; Then pledge me a cup of the Cyprus wine, For I fain ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
... Guntersberg with an axe, because she purposed to marry—And prays the convent porter, Matthias Winterfeld, to death—For these, and other causes, the reverend chaplain refuses to shrive the sorceress, and denounces her ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... have sinned in the church, and now I have come for you to shrive me. I sinned at the altar when I was praying. I prayed God: 'I thank Thee, Lord, that Thou hast not prevented me from doing what I vowed to do, and that was to rob Thine altar of one whom my heart loves. I thank Thee that Thou hast sent ...
— Peter the Priest • Mr Jkai
... 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 visible in their ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson
... responsibility? Do I merit punishment everlasting for a silly amourette that lasted no longer than the July moon? Tell me, Loskiel, you who are called among us blameless and unstained, is there no hope for a guilty man to shrive himself ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart," said ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott |
