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Pagina viii
... appeared , by the elaborate researches of my ingenious friend , Mr. Francis Palgrave , whose proof - sheets , containing the passages I allude to , have been kindly forwarded to me , and whose complete work will be before the public ere ...
... appeared , by the elaborate researches of my ingenious friend , Mr. Francis Palgrave , whose proof - sheets , containing the passages I allude to , have been kindly forwarded to me , and whose complete work will be before the public ere ...
Pagina xii
... appeared any complainant or appel- lant who sought to obtain the aid of the Vehmic tribunal , in those cases when it did not possess that summary jurisdiction from which it has obtained such fearful celebrity . Here also the suitors of ...
... appeared any complainant or appel- lant who sought to obtain the aid of the Vehmic tribunal , in those cases when it did not possess that summary jurisdiction from which it has obtained such fearful celebrity . Here also the suitors of ...
Pagina xiii
... appearing . But one of the " Wissenden " was in no respect liable to the summary process , or to the inquisitorial ... appeared in the open court and defended himself according to the ordinary rules of law . If he absconded , or if the ...
... appearing . But one of the " Wissenden " was in no respect liable to the summary process , or to the inquisitorial ... appeared in the open court and defended himself according to the ordinary rules of law . If he absconded , or if the ...
Pagina 1
... appearance , the secluded valleys which winded among those gigantic mountains nourished a race of hunters and shepherds ; men who , living in a state of primaeval simplicity , compelled from the soil A. OF G. B a subsistence gained by ...
... appearance , the secluded valleys which winded among those gigantic mountains nourished a race of hunters and shepherds ; men who , living in a state of primaeval simplicity , compelled from the soil A. OF G. B a subsistence gained by ...
Pagina 10
... appeared to change . Each mountain , as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying , altered in appearance , like that of a shadowy apparition , as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions ...
... appeared to change . Each mountain , as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying , altered in appearance , like that of a shadowy apparition , as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions ...
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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...
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...