The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Nottingham Society, 1920 |
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Pagina 8
... heart , that nothing but the rude hand of adversity can pluck it up . ' As yet the root clings fast to my heart's strings , ' said the young man ; and methinks adversity's hand hath had a fair grasp of it . ' ' You speak , my son , of ...
... heart , that nothing but the rude hand of adversity can pluck it up . ' As yet the root clings fast to my heart's strings , ' said the young man ; and methinks adversity's hand hath had a fair grasp of it . ' ' You speak , my son , of ...
Pagina 20
... heart of the traveller , who instantly let the lad go , and holding up his hands and lifting his eyes towards heaven , said , in accents of the deepest agony , mingled with devout resignation , Fiat voluntas tua -he was my last , and ...
... heart of the traveller , who instantly let the lad go , and holding up his hands and lifting his eyes towards heaven , said , in accents of the deepest agony , mingled with devout resignation , Fiat voluntas tua -he was my last , and ...
Pagina 22
... heart , was directed towards the object which the lad referred to as a signal of his son's safety . He became at length satisfied that the signal was actually waved by a human hand ; and , as eager in the glow of reviving hope , as he ...
... heart , was directed towards the object which the lad referred to as a signal of his son's safety . He became at length satisfied that the signal was actually waved by a human hand ; and , as eager in the glow of reviving hope , as he ...
Pagina 26
... heart's blood should cease to beat ? Had he already lost the dignity of humanity , the awe which the being formed in the image of his Maker inspires into all inferior creatures ? Apprehensions so painful served more than all that reason ...
... heart's blood should cease to beat ? Had he already lost the dignity of humanity , the awe which the being formed in the image of his Maker inspires into all inferior creatures ? Apprehensions so painful served more than all that reason ...
Pagina 27
... heart throbbed with a violence that threatened to suffocate him , turned his thoughts and observation to the means of effecting his escape . But , as he looked around him , he became more and more sensible how much he was enervated by ...
... heart throbbed with a violence that threatened to suffocate him , turned his thoughts and observation to the means of effecting his escape . But , as he looked around him , he became more and more sensible how much he was enervated by ...
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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
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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...