Excerpt from The Canterbury Pilgrimages The breath Of Spring blows fresh and sweet, the leaves grow soft and green, while high in heaven the hawk stoops to strike the lordly heron. Year after year it is the same, while Thomas Of London climbs to towering heights - and falls. Pilgrims loiter through the Kentish fields and gardens, over the soft, Short sward Of the Open Surrey downs; while summoners, pardoners, and other mountebanks win their way by fraud. Century after century it is the same, while the Cult Of Thomas the ...
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Excerpt from The Canterbury Pilgrimages The breath Of Spring blows fresh and sweet, the leaves grow soft and green, while high in heaven the hawk stoops to strike the lordly heron. Year after year it is the same, while Thomas Of London climbs to towering heights - and falls. Pilgrims loiter through the Kentish fields and gardens, over the soft, Short sward Of the Open Surrey downs; while summoners, pardoners, and other mountebanks win their way by fraud. Century after century it is the same, while the Cult Of Thomas the Martyr rises to towering heights - and falls. The interest of this book centres around two great tragedies, the fall of Thomas the Arch bishop; and the fall of the worship Of Thomas the Martyr. These are bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy; the collapse of a grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and shortcomings, had done a noble work for those who needed it most - the poor, the weak, the sorrowing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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