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Pagina vii
... less capricious in its efforts , I have to confess on this occasion more violations of accuracy in historical details than can perhaps be alleged against others of my novels . In truth , often as I have been complimented on the strength ...
... less capricious in its efforts , I have to confess on this occasion more violations of accuracy in historical details than can perhaps be alleged against others of my novels . In truth , often as I have been complimented on the strength ...
Pagina viii
... less consequence . The emperor of the days my novel refers to , though the representative of that Leopold who fell in the great battle of Sempach , never set up any pretensions against the liberties of the gallant Swiss , but , on the ...
... less consequence . The emperor of the days my novel refers to , though the representative of that Leopold who fell in the great battle of Sempach , never set up any pretensions against the liberties of the gallant Swiss , but , on the ...
Pagina xvi
... less than six , in excellent pre- servation , from as many different indi- viduals , who thus testified their general approbation of these pages . They are not the less interesting , that gigantic swords , of nearly the same pattern and ...
... less than six , in excellent pre- servation , from as many different indi- viduals , who thus testified their general approbation of these pages . They are not the less interesting , that gigantic swords , of nearly the same pattern and ...
Pagina 2
... less distinguished occasions , plainly intimated that a new principle of civil organization , as well as of military movements , had arisen amid the stormy regions of Helvetia . Still , although the decisive victories which obtained ...
... less distinguished occasions , plainly intimated that a new principle of civil organization , as well as of military movements , had arisen amid the stormy regions of Helvetia . Still , although the decisive victories which obtained ...
Pagina 13
... less time than we have taken to tell the story , the young man stood beside Antonio and the mule , upon a platform of rock on which the road seemed absolutely to terminate , and from the farther side of which a precipice sank sheer down ...
... less time than we have taken to tell the story , the young man stood beside Antonio and the mule , upon a platform of rock on which the road seemed absolutely to terminate , and from the farther side of which a precipice sank sheer down ...
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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...