 | Alban Butler - 1845 - 322 pages
...III. K my father came to find me out, overwhelmed with sorrow. He tore his beard, he threw himself prostrate on the ground, cursed his years, and said...clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable promegranates of gold. He said to me : ' Perpetua, we wait for you, come along.' He then took me by... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1866 - 320 pages
...1738, 4to. my father came to find me out, overwhelmed with sorrow. He tore his beard, he threw himself prostrate on the ground, cursed his years, and said...clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable promegranates of gold. He said to me: 'Perpetua, we wait for you, come along.' He then took me by the... | |
 | Cecilia MacGregor - 1874 - 370 pages
...all condemned to be exposed to wild beasts." After relating another vision, S. Perpetua continues : "On the eve of the shows I was favoured with the following...Deacon Pomponius, methought, knocked very hard at the prison door, which I opened to him. He was clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable... | |
 | charlotte m. yonge - 1878 - 632 pages
...Sacrifice for the prosperity of the emperors." After relating another vision, S. Perpetua continues : ' On the eve of the shows I was favoured with the following...Deacon Pomponius, methought, knocked very hard at the prison door, which T opened to him. He was clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable... | |
 | 1878 - 636 pages
...Sacrifice for the prosperity of the emperors." Alter relating another vision, S. Perpetua continues : ' On the eve of the shows I was favoured with the following...Deacon Pomponius, methought, knocked very hard at the prison door, which I opened to him. He was clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable... | |
 | 1878 - 632 pages
...all condemned to be exposed to wild beasts.' After relating another vision, S. Perpetua continues : ' On the eve of the shows I was favoured with the following...Deacon Pomponius, methought, knocked very hard at the prison door, which I opened to him. He was clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1879 - 536 pages
...the day of the public shows, my father came overwhelmed with sorrow. He tore his beard, threw himself on the ground, cursed his years, and said enough to...deacon Pomponius, methought, knocked very hard at the prison door, which I opened to him. He was clothed with a white robe, embroidered with innumerable... | |
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He tore his beard, he threw himslf prostrate on the ground, cursed his years, and said enough to move any creature ; and I was ready to die with sorrow to see my father in so deplorable a condition. On the eve of the shows, I was favoured with the following... 