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saints embrace thee with a love like
(That cause of all my guilt, and all my joy) In trance ecstatic may the pangs be drown'd, Bright clouds descend, and angels watch thee round, From opening skies may streaming glories shine, And saints embrace thee with a love like mine.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Saturday evenings they were a little later
On Saturday evenings they were a little later, as then the sisters were enjoined to purify themselves—that is to say, to wash their hands and feet, a function which the abbess or lay-sisters were specially directed to supervise.
— from The End of the Middle Ages: Essays and Questions in History by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

stir easily thin with a little lemon
If it begins to thicken too much to stir easily, thin with a little lemon juice, adding oil and lemon alternately until you have used all the oil and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice.
— from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery by Emma Paddock Telford

saints embrace thee with a love like
In trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drown'd, Bright clouds descend, and angels watch thee round, 340 From opening skies may streaming glories shine, And saints embrace thee with a love like mine.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

saints embrace thee with a love like
Johnson would have been still less pleased at her discovery that a line in his epitaph on Phillips, "Till angels wake thee with a note like thine," was imitated from Pope's "And saints embrace thee with a love like mine."
— from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi


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