Plague and Pestilence in Literature and ArtClarendon Press, 1914 - 222 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Almighty altar angel Antonine plague Apollo arrows Athenian Belsunce Black Death Boccaccio Bologna Bonfigli Borromeo buboes bubonic plague carried century character Christ Christian church commemorate confraternities contagion corpses dead bodies deliverance from plague depicted died Diodorus Diodorus Siculus disease earthquakes Emperor epidemic face famine fever figure Florence Florentine Foligno fresco Galen gods Greek Gregory of Tours hand heaven Hippocrates Hist houses human Impruneta infected Italy Jews legend literature Livy Lucretius Madonna and Child Marseilles medicine Milan miraculous Madonna mortality origin painted patron saint Paul the Deacon perished Perugia Pestblätter Peste pestilence physicians picture plague and pestilence Plague banners plague of Athens plague of Marseilles plague-stricken PLATE XVII poison prayer priests procession Procopius Raphael record Rocco Roman Rome sacrifice says Sebastian and Roch seen serpent shows Sibylline books sick Siena spread streets suffered sword temple Thucydides typhus ulcers Venice victims Virgin vowed whole
Popular passages
Page 3 - Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.
Page 13 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 14 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 144 - Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Page 10 - And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil : but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us ; it was a chance that happened to us.
Page 8 - He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers ; his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 8 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 3 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 74 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.