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Pagina vii
... once interested my fancy , it has generally been a frail support , not only as to names and dates , and other minute technicalities of history , but as to many more important things . I hope this apology will suffice for one mistake ...
... once interested my fancy , it has generally been a frail support , not only as to names and dates , and other minute technicalities of history , but as to many more important things . I hope this apology will suffice for one mistake ...
Pagina xv
... once considered as condemned . Heimliche Acht is a presentment not traversable by the offender . The ' The Vehmic tribunals can only be considered as the original jurisdictions of the " Old Saxons " , which survived the subjugation of ...
... once considered as condemned . Heimliche Acht is a presentment not traversable by the offender . The ' The Vehmic tribunals can only be considered as the original jurisdictions of the " Old Saxons " , which survived the subjugation of ...
Pagina 6
... once been as far as Paris , supposed they might be English ; a people of whom it was only known in these mountains that they were a fierce insular race , at war with the French for many years , and a large body of whom had long since ...
... once been as far as Paris , supposed they might be English ; a people of whom it was only known in these mountains that they were a fierce insular race , at war with the French for many years , and a large body of whom had long since ...
Pagina 9
... once more crossed himself as he finished his legend ; in which act of devotion he was imitated by his hearers , too good Catholics to entertain any doubt of the truth of the story . How the accursed heathen scowls upon us ! ' said the ...
... once more crossed himself as he finished his legend ; in which act of devotion he was imitated by his hearers , too good Catholics to entertain any doubt of the truth of the story . How the accursed heathen scowls upon us ! ' said the ...
Pagina 14
... once inverted and shattered to pieces , and lay a sport to the streams of the river which they had heretofore covered with gloomy shadow . The gaunt precipice which remained behind , like the skeleton of some huge monster divested of ...
... once inverted and shattered to pieces , and lay a sport to the streams of the river which they had heretofore covered with gloomy shadow . The gaunt precipice which remained behind , like the skeleton of some huge monster divested of ...
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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...