"Dirige" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remembered the abbey as he lay dying, and the sound of its bells ringing for vespers came softly in at his window on the mellow September air; and he left 'my Lord Abbot and Convent' one of his famous broadcloths and four pounds in money 'for to have a dirige and Masse and their belles Ryngyng at my buriall when it is doon at Chirche, lykewyse the vijth day and mounth day, with iij tryntalls upon the same day yf they can serve them, orells when they can at more leasur, Summa ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... said all the ladies was ever her prayer these two days till she was dead. Then Sir Lancelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed. And so he did all the observance of the service himself, both the Dirige, and on the morn he sang Mass. And there was ordained an horse-bier, and so with an hundred torches ever burning about the corpse of the Queen, and ever Sir Lancelot with his eight fellows went about the horse-bier singing and reading many an holy orison, and frankincense upon ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone
... votre magnifique difice domine votre cit, de mme la pense dominante de votre universit est d'tre le phare sur lequel se dirige le peuple dans l'esprance que cette mulation tendra nous diriger vers de ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell |
