 There is no jot of worthy evidence that from the time of his imprisonment to the supreme moment, Savonarola thought or spoke of himself as a martyr. The idea of martyrdom had been to him a passion dividing the dream of the future with the triumph of beholding...  Romola - Page 362by George Eliot - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...For power rose against him, not because of his sins, but because of his greatness — not because ho sought to deceive the world, but because he sought...of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement where he could only say : " I count as nothing ; darkness encompasses me ; yet the light I saw was... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1863 - 806 pages
...to all time. For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness—not because he sought to deceive the world, but because...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light." 8—2 CHAPTER LXXIL THE LAST SILEHCE. ROMOLA had seemed to hear, as if they had been a cry,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his ho endured a double agony : not only the reviling, and...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light." CHAPTER LXXII. THE LAST SILENCE. ROMOLA had seemed to hear, as if they had been a cry, the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony ; not only the reviling, and the tortnre, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light." CHAPTER LXXII. THE LAST SILENCE. ROMOLA had seemed to hear, as if they had been a cry, the... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...heads in. silence and felt, ' I am not worthy to be a martyr ; the truth shall prosper, but not by me.' There is no jot of worthy evidence that from the time...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light.' Perhaps, while no preacher ever had a more massive influence than Savonarola, no preacher ever... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...heads in»silence and felt, c I am not worthy to be a martyr ; the truth shall prosper, but not by me.' There is no jot of worthy evidence that from the time...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light.' Perhaps, while no preacher ever had a more massive influence than Savonarola, no preacher ever... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1875 - 664 pages
...silence and feel, ' I am not worthy to be a martyr, the truth shall prosper, but not by me ; ' ' ' how he endured " a double agony, not only the reviling...and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from a vision of glorious achievement into the deep shadow where he could only say, ' I count as nothing,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 464 pages
...their faces against it are the children of the devil ! " The voice of Sadness tells him, VOL. II. 2 E " God placed thee in the midst of the people even as...encompasses me : yet the light I saw was the true light." 436 CHAPTER LXXIL THE LAST SILENCE. EOHOLA had seemed to hear, as if they had been a cry, the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 634 pages
...history, not in the legend, is there, besides " the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe," an agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where the fallen Teacher can only say, " I count as nothing ; darkness encompasses me, but the light that... | |
 | Mathilde Blind - 1883 - 314 pages
...whom he was to act, preeminence seemed a necessary condition of life." But, as George Eliot says, " Power rose against him, not because of his sins, but...encompasses me ; yet the light I saw was the true light.' " But after all, in George Eliot's story the chief interest attaching to " Fra Girolamo" consists... | |
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