The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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Page 353
... abbot of St. Albans , who besides the peccadilloes of simony and usury , ejected a whole convent of nuns , in order that he might fill it with ladies of a less solitary description . I shall not venture upon a story like that . But the ...
... abbot of St. Albans , who besides the peccadilloes of simony and usury , ejected a whole convent of nuns , in order that he might fill it with ladies of a less solitary description . I shall not venture upon a story like that . But the ...
Page 354
... abbot's a villain . " A great stir ensued in the gallery . The abbot suddenly presented himself in the front , holding a pale and frightened - looking young man , one of the monks . He was himself much agitated , and addressed the ...
... abbot's a villain . " A great stir ensued in the gallery . The abbot suddenly presented himself in the front , holding a pale and frightened - looking young man , one of the monks . He was himself much agitated , and addressed the ...
Page 356
... abbot suspect him to be a runaway youth , who was to be sent back to his parents ; but although the little stranger , with great firmness and gentleness , declined giving an ac- count of himself , yet upon his repeated protestations ...
... abbot suspect him to be a runaway youth , who was to be sent back to his parents ; but although the little stranger , with great firmness and gentleness , declined giving an ac- count of himself , yet upon his repeated protestations ...
Page 357
... abbot took him to be eleven or twelve at most ; but the truth was , he was a good twenty . Our reverend father , in order to worm his secret out of the boy ( for gossiping always went a great way in religious houses ) consigned him to ...
... abbot took him to be eleven or twelve at most ; but the truth was , he was a good twenty . Our reverend father , in order to worm his secret out of the boy ( for gossiping always went a great way in religious houses ) consigned him to ...
Page 358
... abbot might be made , and lent an ear that alarmed him to every account of what was passing in the world . The abbot of St. Mary Ottery was a lord of parliament . Father Edmund might become a lord of parliament , and the whole Christian ...
... abbot might be made , and lent an ear that alarmed him to every account of what was passing in the world . The abbot of St. Mary Ottery was a lord of parliament . Father Edmund might become a lord of parliament , and the whole Christian ...
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