The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Nottingham Society, 1920 |
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Pagina viii
... 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 , I am bound to ...
... 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 , I am bound to ...
Pagina xvi
... means of doing so , in the valuable works of Zschokké and M. de Barante - which last author's account of the Dukes of Burgundy is among the most valuable of recent acces- sions of European literature - and in the new Parisian edition of ...
... means of doing so , in the valuable works of Zschokké and M. de Barante - which last author's account of the Dukes of Burgundy is among the most valuable of recent acces- sions of European literature - and in the new Parisian edition of ...
Pagina 5
... means of information which they possessed . They observed also , that the merchants , under pretence of haste , declined opening their bales , or proposing traffic to the inhabitants of Lucerne , alleging in excuse that they had no ...
... means of information which they possessed . They observed also , that the merchants , under pretence of haste , declined opening their bales , or proposing traffic to the inhabitants of Lucerne , alleging in excuse that they had no ...
Pagina 6
Walter Scott. transpired , by means of their attendant , that the strangers had visited Venice , and had there made many purchases of rich commodities , which were brought from India and Egypt to that celebrated emporium , as to the ...
Walter Scott. transpired , by means of their attendant , that the strangers had visited Venice , and had there made many purchases of rich commodities , which were brought from India and Egypt to that celebrated emporium , as to the ...
Pagina 18
... means of its support . And bitterly , most bitterly , did the miserable parent now lament , that he had not persisted in his purpose to encounter the baffling and even perilous measure of retracing his steps to the habitation of the ...
... means of its support . And bitterly , most bitterly , did the miserable parent now lament , that he had not persisted in his purpose to encounter the baffling and even perilous measure of retracing his steps to the habitation of the ...
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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...