He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He... A Book of Ballads on German History - Page 136by Wilhelm Wagner - 1877 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Robertson - Europe - 1857 - 602 pages
...fixed was as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which... | |
| William Robertson - 1857 - 600 pages
...fixed was as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1858 - 736 pages
...continued to occupy the imperial throne. The ambition and policy of Charles V. so remarkable a man. " He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in formal procession, with black tapers in their hands. lie himself followed in his shroud. He was laid... | |
| William Robertson - 1859 - 668 pages
...fixed was as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which... | |
| 1862 - 520 pages
...an act as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in thclr hands. He himself followed in hi* shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. The... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1863 - 552 pages
...an act as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. The service for the dend was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...to a weak and disordered fi*ncy. lie resolved to celebrate Ills own obsequies before his death. lie ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the...funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. Ho himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. The service for the... | |
| Ireland - 1868 - 720 pages
...he rehearsed his own funeral with most extraordinary accompaniments. According to this authority, " he ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity." The de profundis was chanted, and the living corpse joined in the prayers offered... | |
| William Robertson - Europe - 1868 - 638 pages
...fixed was as wild and uncommon as any that superstition ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of tha monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands.... | |
| Andrew Miller - 1874 - 724 pages
...relief from the gout permitted him. One of these was a kind of theatrical lamentation at his funeral before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel ; his body was laid in the coffin with great solemnity, the monks weeping (?); then marching in funeral... | |
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