The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Nottingham Society, 1920 |
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Pagina 1
... Italy , but more especially Austria , had been made acquainted with the character of a people , of whose very existence they had before been scarcely conscious . It is true that the inhabitants of those countries which lie in the ...
... Italy , but more especially Austria , had been made acquainted with the character of a people , of whose very existence they had before been scarcely conscious . It is true that the inhabitants of those countries which lie in the ...
Pagina 5
... Italian side of the Alps , followed them with a sumpter mule , laden apparently with men's wares and baggage , which he some- times mounted , but more frequently led by the bridle . The travellers were uncommonly fine - looking men ...
... Italian side of the Alps , followed them with a sumpter mule , laden apparently with men's wares and baggage , which he some- times mounted , but more frequently led by the bridle . The travellers were uncommonly fine - looking men ...
Pagina 6
... Italian , nor French , but from which an old man serving in the cabaret , who had once been as far as Paris , supposed they might be English ; a people of whom it was only known in these mountains that they were a fierce insular race ...
... Italian , nor French , but from which an old man serving in the cabaret , who had once been as far as Paris , supposed they might be English ; a people of whom it was only known in these mountains that they were a fierce insular race ...
Pagina 10
... Italian and German , exhorted them to make haste on their journey . The village to which he proposed to conduct them , he said , was yet distant , the road bad and difficult to find , and if the Evil One ( looking to Mount Pilatus , and ...
... Italian and German , exhorted them to make haste on their journey . The village to which he proposed to conduct them , he said , was yet distant , the road bad and difficult to find , and if the Evil One ( looking to Mount Pilatus , and ...
Pagina 11
... Italian , if we be in the road we purposed ? ' 6 ' If it please Saint Antonio ' -said the guide , who was obviously too much confused to answer the question directly . ' And that water , half covered with mist , which glimmers through ...
... Italian , if we be in the road we purposed ? ' 6 ' If it please Saint Antonio ' -said the guide , who was obviously too much confused to answer the question directly . ' And that water , half covered with mist , which glimmers through ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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...
Pagina viii - I mean the Vehmic tribunals of Westphalia; a name so awful in men's ears during many centuries, and which, through the genius of Goethe, has again been revived in public fancy with a full share of its ancient terrors...
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...