Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows from a maiden's veins, \ Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of yours... The Golden Legend - Page 19by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1852 - 1228 pages
...professes no faith in the remedy, and shows to Lucifer a written recipe of the doctors of Salernum : — " Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy...shall die, And give her life as the price of yours 1" The Devil meantime presses his own recipe of alcohol, which the Prince at length, in a fit of desperation,... | |
| Scotland - 1852 - 838 pages
...doctors of Salerno, and that their reply to the statement of his case is as follows : — " Not to bo cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains...shall die, And give her life as the price of yours." Lucifer, with much show of propriety, langhs at the prescription ; and, in place of it, recommends... | |
| American periodicals - 1852 - 662 pages
...to Lucifer a written recipe of the doctors of Salernum : — " Not to be cured, yet not incurable 1 The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows...shall die, And give her life as the price of yours !" The Devil meantime presses his own recipe of alcohol, which the Prince at length, in a fit of desperation,... | |
| Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...hope he has obtained is from the doctors of Salerno, in Italy, whose answer to his enquiries is that, "The only remedy that remains, Is the blood that flows...shall die, And give her life as the price of yours." Such a maiden is found in the person of Elsie, the daughter of Gottlieb and Ursula, two peasants on... | |
| England - 1852 - 790 pages
...follows : — " Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood tliat flows from a maiden's veins, Who of her own free will...shall die, And give her life as the price of yours." Lucifer, with much show of pro: priety, laughs at the prescription ; and, in place of it, recommends... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1852 - 776 pages
...been hit on for the restoration to health : — The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flowa from a maiden's veins, Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of yours ! Lucifer gives him something warm and comfortable to drink (much to the discomfiture of an angel who... | |
| 1852 - 394 pages
...:' " Not to be cured, yet not incurable" ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows in a maiden's veins, Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of youn !" And Lucifer adds — ( One cannot say That into some maiden's brain that kind Of madness will... | |
| 1852 - 782 pages
...restoration to health : — The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flowi from a maiden's reins, Who of her own free will shall die. And give her life as the price of yours ! Lucifer gives him something warm and comfortable to drink (much to the discomfiture of an angel who... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 270 pages
...HENRY. Unendurable ! LUCIFER. What is their remedy ? PRINCE HENRY. You shall see : Writ in this seroll is the mystery. LUCIFER, reading. " Not to be cured,...cures, And one, I think, you will never try ; The preseription you may well put by, As something impossible to find Before the world itself shall end... | |
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