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Pagina 6
... desire to review and handle the rich stores of the merchants , and some displeasure at being prevented from doing so . It was also observed that , though the strangers were sufficiently courteous in their demeanour , they did not evince ...
... desire to review and handle the rich stores of the merchants , and some displeasure at being prevented from doing so . It was also observed that , though the strangers were sufficiently courteous in their demeanour , they did not evince ...
Pagina 36
... desire to regain his character in the eyes of his guide , prevented Arthur from again giving way to the appalling feelings by which he had been overwhelmed a short time before . Stepping firmly on , yet cautiously supporting himself ...
... desire to regain his character in the eyes of his guide , prevented Arthur from again giving way to the appalling feelings by which he had been overwhelmed a short time before . Stepping firmly on , yet cautiously supporting himself ...
Pagina 47
... desire . ' This was said with a glance at his fair companion , who did not appear to take the compliment , while the envoy of Berne proceeded : -But our wealthier burghers , having some superfluous crowns , think it no extravagance to ...
... desire . ' This was said with a glance at his fair companion , who did not appear to take the compliment , while the envoy of Berne proceeded : -But our wealthier burghers , having some superfluous crowns , think it no extravagance to ...
Pagina 67
... desire to sully the fair cause in which I had assumed arms by enriching myself at the expense of my brother ; and besides , to have dwelt in that guarded hold would have been a penance to one , the sole protectors of whose house of late ...
... desire to sully the fair cause in which I had assumed arms by enriching myself at the expense of my brother ; and besides , to have dwelt in that guarded hold would have been a penance to one , the sole protectors of whose house of late ...
Pagina 69
... desires that thou apply to her mainten- ance the rents and profits of the lands of Geierstein , which thou hast usurped from him . " - " Ital Schreckenwald , " I replied , “ I will not stop to ask if this mode of addressing me be ...
... desires that thou apply to her mainten- ance the rents and profits of the lands of Geierstein , which thou hast usurped from him . " - " Ital Schreckenwald , " I replied , “ I will not stop to ask if this mode of addressing me be ...
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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...