 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, William Hickling Prescott - Europe - 1887 - 852 pages
...ever suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies beforAhis death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel...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 Stirling Maxwell - Holy Roman Empire - 1891 - 658 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... | |
 | Sir William Stirling Maxwell - Art - 1891 - 650 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... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - Last words - 1900 - 294 pages
...Reign of the Emperor Charles V. we have this account of the monarch's attendance upon his own funeral: "He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before...followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. DORNEY (Henry, a man of peculiarly beautiful life and religious experience. His... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1902 - 568 pages
...suggested to a weak and disordered fancy. He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his deatn. 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 service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1904 - 492 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... | |
 | Wilhelm Wagner - Foreign Language Study - 2019 - 184 pages
...incessantly.' i. inffamfcj) is more stately, because more uncommon than the ordinary adj. ftwrnfcj). 6. " Charles had no relish for amusements of any kind....followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin [©orio^ag] with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted. This affected him so much, that... | |
 | 1862 - 518 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...black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in hii shroud. He was laid in his coffin with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and... | |
 | Books - 1769 - 604 pages
...fuperftition ever fuggefted to a weak and diforclered fancy. • He refolved to celebrate hi* own obfequics before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monaftry. His domeftics marched thither in funeral proceflion, with black tapers in their hands. He... | |
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