Passion-week

Shrove-Tuesday was marked by a ball, and Passion-week by promenades and concerts.

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In Albano's silent heart, therefore, there was to be seen a saintly image of Liana, the ascending Raphael's Mary, but, like the pictures of the saints in Passion-week, hanging behind a veil.

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It might be said, 'He refused to dine with a Bishop in Passion-week, but was three Sundays absent from Church.'

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

But you must consider laxity is a bad thing; but preciseness is also a bad thing; and your general character may be more hurt by preciseness than by dining with a Bishop in Passion-week.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

No. 7, written in Passion-week on abstraction and self-examination [2], and No. 110, on penitence and the placability of the Divine Nature, cannot be too often read.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Johnson dines with him in Passion-week, iv. 88, n.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

I have unfortunately recorded none of his conversation at the Bishop's where we dined together [288]: but I have preserved his ingenious defence of his dining twice abroad in Passion-week [289]; a laxity, in which I am convinced he would not have indulged himself at the time when he wrote his solemn paper in The Rambler [290], upon that aweful season.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Passion-week, Johnson has an awe on him, ii-476; dines out every day, iii. 300, n.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Then that Passion-week sermon she had taken him to hear; which had so moved her, with which she had so sweetly and persistently assumed his sympathy!

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

Passion-week is at an end, and the Resurrection days are here; spring has melted the frost; mind and memory have woken, and the past rises up again.

Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880