Unto the altars thus he destinates His own remains; the light doth gild the gates; Perfumes divine the censers up do send: While th' Indian odour doth itself extend To the Pelusian fens, and filleth all The men it meets with the sweet storm.
The sun, that now sets on the waves of the sea, Shall gild with his rising the land of the free!
It shallgild the gloomy prison, Darkened by the nation's crime, Where the dumb and patient millions Wait the better-coming time.
With the gild lands a course was taken which, in the scramble for land which was going on in the middle of the sixteenth century, was unfortunately highly unusual.
It were foolish to "gild refined gold or paint the lily.
The setting sun used togild the picture and pierce through the open casements.
The sick son and the mother In one chamber slept that night; And the holy Mother of Jesus Gild in with footsteps light She bowed her over the sick man's bed, And one there hand did lay Upon his throbbing bosom, Then smiled and passed away.
The grammar school was founded in 1549, and endowed with the estates of the local Corpus Christi fraternity, then dissolved; the hall in which the gild assembled remains, but the school is established in modern buildings on a new site.
A brighter day we soon shall see, Tho' now the prospect lowers, And conquest, peace, and liberty Shall gild our future hours.
Around the scenes of their early manhood, the halo of these loyal men will ever linger, and gild the name of "Pioneer.
A rising golden star glitters in the West; it is soon to gild the flag of the Union with a richer radiance.
Pope had in his mind a passage of Cowley's Ode on Wit: Yet 'tis not to adorn, and gild each part; That shows more cost than art.
But the story of Daxo and of Ref's gild show that for such wrongs were-gilds were sometimes exacted, and that they were considered highly honourable to the exactor.
Why, then, with all heaven’s lustre glowing, It would not gild her path with half The light her love o’er mine is throwing.
I got to St. Petersburg just as the first rays of the sun began to gild the horizon.
An earlier charter granted to the inhabitants of York shows that these rights included a trade gild and freedom from many dues not only in England but also in France.
He was a man of repute in his native city, and filled all the offices of dignity and trust in the gild of Haarlem.
It is not known when he finally returned to Antwerp, but his death is recorded in the gild books of that place.
The first Merchant Gild known was constituted in =1093=.
No one except the brothers of the Merchant Gild was allowed to trade in any article except food, but any one living in the town might become a brother on payment of a settled fee.
The laws of Ina named as the penalty death or redemption according to the wer-gild of the thief.
A merchant gildexisted here, which was ratified by Edward III.
Its wreaths, its rhymes, its songs, its laughter, But not the loving eyes we met, Whose light shall gild the dim hereafter.
We knew him not so well who knew The patient eyes his soul looked through; For who his untrod realm could share Of us that breathe this mortal air, Or camp in that celestial tent Whose fringes gild our firmament?
Where, thron'd in light, you dwell, Sweet maid, in all thy charms descend To gild my humble cell.
The Gild of the Holy Cross, the earliest record of which is to be found in a writ of Richard II.
The old hall used by the Gild stood on the site of the present school, and it is probable that it was used as a school until new buildings were erected in 1707.
It possessed a Gild Hall, a building of wood and plaster, standing at a distance from the town on the south side of the highway to Hales Owen, now New Street.
This earliest one was known as the Merchant or St. Mary's Gild and its first ordinances provided that "the brethren and sisteren of the gild shall find as many chaplains as the means of the gild can well afford.
Two years later that of St. John Baptist was formed and a year later that of St. Katherine, the three being united into the Trinity Gild before 1359.
Many interesting entries of expenditure are to be found in the gild accounts showing how the Eve of St. John (Midsummer Eve) and other festivals were celebrated before the suppression of the gilds by Edward VI.
The best authorities place the chapel of the Butchers' Gild in the south aisle of the chancel, but do not say to whom the eastern chapel in the nave aisle belonged.
In 1340 Edward III granted Licence to the Coventry men to form a Merchants' Gild with leave "to make chantries, bestow alms, do other works of piety and constitute ordinances touching the same.
The south aisle of the nave, including the lower part of the transept, is doubtless the aisle erected for the Gild by William Walsheman in 1357.
The Trinity Gild decided in 1542 that no obite, drynkyng or com'en assemblie, from henceforth shall be had or used at Babalake, except onelie on Trinitie even and on the day, which shall be used as it hath been in tymes past.
It is of the foundation of the Burgesses and there is a great Privilege, Gild or Fraternity.
Monks' churches had few or none while in town churches they were numerous, London having one hundred and eighty, York forty-two, Coventry at least fifteen besides the twelve gild priests of the chapel of Babelake.
How swiftly pass the happy hours Beside thy palms, beneath thy pines, As through the fountain's crystal showers I watch the sunlight gild thy vines Against the snow-peaks' silvered lines!
Then mount to gildmy desk, my chair, And e'en the spotless paper there, Which soon my written thought must bear.
