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Pagina 52
... horses , and no level ground to career upon if there were . But an English bow he shall have , since we happen to possess one . Take it to the young men , my niece , with the three arrows , and say to them from me , that he who bends it ...
... horses , and no level ground to career upon if there were . But an English bow he shall have , since we happen to possess one . Take it to the young men , my niece , with the three arrows , and say to them from me , that he who bends it ...
Pagina 55
... horses . The huge mound that covers the bones of man and steed , is still called the English Barrow . ' Philipson was silent for a minute or two , and then replied , ' Then let them sleep in peace . If they did wrong , they paid for it ...
... horses . The huge mound that covers the bones of man and steed , is still called the English Barrow . ' Philipson was silent for a minute or two , and then replied , ' Then let them sleep in peace . If they did wrong , they paid for it ...
Pagina 119
... horses . I know but little of them ; yet I judge thou wouldst not buy a steed which thou hadst only seen covered with trappings , or encumbered with saddle and bridle , but wouldst desire to look at him when stripped and in his natural ...
... horses . I know but little of them ; yet I judge thou wouldst not buy a steed which thou hadst only seen covered with trappings , or encumbered with saddle and bridle , but wouldst desire to look at him when stripped and in his natural ...
Pagina 143
... horse , stumbled up almost to the foot of the table at which his lord was seated , with the exclamation in his mouth , - ' My lord , my lord , a fiend is in the stable ! ' ' What means this folly ? ' said the baron , arising , sur ...
... horse , stumbled up almost to the foot of the table at which his lord was seated , with the exclamation in his mouth , - ' My lord , my lord , a fiend is in the stable ! ' ' What means this folly ? ' said the baron , arising , sur ...
Pagina 144
... horse , is in Apollyon's stall ! ' Fool ! ' exclaimed the nobleman , snatching a torch from the wall ; what is it that could have turned thy brain in such silly fashion ? Things like thee , that are born to serve us , should hold their ...
... horse , is in Apollyon's stall ! ' Fool ! ' exclaimed the nobleman , snatching a torch from the wall ; what is it that could have turned thy brain in such silly fashion ? Things like thee , that are born to serve us , should hold their ...
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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...