...is freed Earlier f rum cleansing fires, and gains toitiial A brighter crown.* — On yon Cistcrtian wall That confident assurance may be read ; And, to...world have fled Increasing multitudes. The potent c.ill Doubtless shall cheat full oft the heart's desires ; Yet, while the rugged age on pliant knee...

...ambition, be this tribute paid. Cistertian " HERE Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, Monastery More promptly rises, walks with stricter heed, More...rests, dies happier, is freed Earlier from cleansing Jires, and gains withal A brighter crown." — On yon Cistertian wall That confident assurance may...

...Karl!frfi-vm tlmnilngjini, and ijnitii «illml '• A liríyhitr erotrii *." — On yun Cistortian wull That confident assurance may be read; And, to like shelter, from the world have tied Increasing multitudes. The potent eall PouUlesx shall eheat full oft the heart's désirée ; •...

...the stores of a fellow-labourer in this cause, than to inflict our readers with more of our own. 1. "Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly ris-es, walks with easier heed, More softly rests, dies happier, and gains A brighter crown."— said saintly Bernard,...

...the stores of a fellow-labourer in this cause, than to inflict our readers with more of our own. 1. " Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks wiili easier het'd. More softly rests, dies happier, and gains A brighter crown." — said saintly...

...poem on the Wye we have already quoted, addresses the following Htnes to a Cfistcvcian .{Honnstcni. ' Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, wnlks with nicer heed, More safely rests, dies happier ; is freed Earlier from cleansing fires, and...

...velocius, incedit cautius, quiescit securius, moritur felicius, purgatur citius, prsemiatur copiosius." " Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More...cleansing fires, and gains withal A brighter crown." l Of such was our countryman Gyraldus Cambrensis, whose lines on his cell at St. Alban's are not without...

...THE MIDDLE AGES. INGULF. CISTERCIANS. CLUNIACS. GRANDMONTINES. CARTHUSIANS. " Here man more freely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks...cleansing fires, and gains withal A brighter crown." ST. BERNARD. THE conquest of England, by William, Duke of Normandy, AD 1066, was an event in which...

...miserably, oft monstrously, abused CISTERTIAN MONASTERY. "HERE Man more purely lives, less oft doth fill, " More promptly rises, walks with stricter heed, "More...happier, is freed "Earlier from cleansing fires, and gaina withal "A brighter crown*." — On yon Cistertian wall Tkat confident assurance may be read ;...

...monk into orders by its golden net-work, I shall add Wordsworth's translation of this, as follows : "Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks with nicer heed, More safely rests, dies happier, is freed Earlier from cleansing fires, and gains, withal,...