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Pagina iv
... ARTHUR PHILIPSON AND ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN SWISS FARMHOUSE , NEAR BERNE CASTLE OF GEIERSTEIN · 2535 30 37 61 DUEL BETWEEN RUDOLPH DONNERHUGEL AND ARTHUR PHILIPSON • GATE OF ST . PAUL , BALE 656 79 97 MONASTERY · · IN THE TOWN OF ST . GALL ...
... ARTHUR PHILIPSON AND ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN SWISS FARMHOUSE , NEAR BERNE CASTLE OF GEIERSTEIN · 2535 30 37 61 DUEL BETWEEN RUDOLPH DONNERHUGEL AND ARTHUR PHILIPSON • GATE OF ST . PAUL , BALE 656 79 97 MONASTERY · · IN THE TOWN OF ST . GALL ...
Pagina 8
... Arthur , - what does that resemble ? ' That of a brave and unfortunate one , ' replied his father . ' The torrent for me , ' said Arthur ; a headlong course which no human force can oppose , and then let it be as brief as it is glorious ...
... Arthur , - what does that resemble ? ' That of a brave and unfortunate one , ' replied his father . ' The torrent for me , ' said Arthur ; a headlong course which no human force can oppose , and then let it be as brief as it is glorious ...
Pagina 23
... Arthur's . ' 6 ' I wot well , no , ' answered the Grison ; that is a woman's voice . The maidens will converse with each other in that manner , from cliff to cliff , through storm and tempest , were there a mile between . ' ' Now ...
... Arthur's . ' 6 ' I wot well , no , ' answered the Grison ; that is a woman's voice . The maidens will converse with each other in that manner , from cliff to cliff , through storm and tempest , were there a mile between . ' ' Now ...
Pagina 24
Walter Scott. that Arthur Philipson had commenced his precarious . journey along the precipice , with all the coolness ... Arthur , while clinging to the decayed trunk of an old tree , from which , suspended between heaven and earth , he ...
Walter Scott. that Arthur Philipson had commenced his precarious . journey along the precipice , with all the coolness ... Arthur , while clinging to the decayed trunk of an old tree , from which , suspended between heaven and earth , he ...
Pagina 25
... Arthur had not been accustomed to see , or at least to look upon closely . With the instinct of most birds of prey , it is the custom of this creature , when gorged with food , to assume some station of inaccessible security , and there ...
... Arthur had not been accustomed to see , or at least to look upon closely . With the instinct of most birds of prey , it is the custom of this creature , when gorged with food , to assume some station of inaccessible security , and there ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Anne of Geierstein Annette answered appeared Archibald de Hagenbach arms Arnheim Arnold Biederman Arthur Philipson Bâle baron baroness Berne Bernese betwixt Black Priest Burgundian Campo-Basso Cantons castle character Charles of Burgundy Colvin command companion Contay court danger desire Duke of Burgundy Duke of Lorraine duke's duty Earl of Oxford elder Philipson England English eyes father Ferette Ferrand France German governor guest hand hast hath hear heard Heaven holy honour horse journey Kilian King René knight lady Landamman look lord Lorraine maiden manner Margaret Margaret of Anjou merchant Mount Pilatus mountain never noble passed peace person present Priest of St prince Provence purpose queen received replied Rhine Rudolph Donnerhugel Saint Schreckenwald secret seemed Sigismund soldiers speak stood stranger Swiss Switzers sword tell thee Thiebault thou thought town travellers tribunal Unterwalden voice wine word yonder young Englishman youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 285 - Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine ? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties ; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Pagina 31 - Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace outshines the silver store ; And life is dearer than the golden ore : Yet money tempts us o'er the desert brown, To every distant mart and wealthy town. Full oft we tempt the land, and oft the...
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Pagina 9 - ... penitence, plunged into the dismal lake which occupies the summit. Whether water refused to do the executioner's duty upon such a wretch, or whether, his body being drowned, his vexed spirit continued to haunt the place where he committed suicide, Antonio did not pretend to explain. But a form was often, he said, seen to emerge from the gloomy waters, and go through the action of one washing his hands ; and when he did so, dark clouds of mist gathered first round the bosom of the Infernal Lake...