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Pagina vii
... respect to the same faculty . ' No , doctor , ' said the honest border - laird , ' I have no command of my memory ; it only retains what happens to hit my fancy , and like enough , sir , if you were to preach to me for a couple of hours ...
... respect to the same faculty . ' No , doctor , ' said the honest border - laird , ' I have no command of my memory ; it only retains what happens to hit my fancy , and like enough , sir , if you were to preach to me for a couple of hours ...
Pagina ix
... respecting their Gorseddau , or Conventions , which were " always held in the open air , in the eye of the light , and in face of the sun " .1 ' When a criminal was to be judged , or a cause to be decided , the Graff and the Free ...
... respecting their Gorseddau , or Conventions , which were " always held in the open air , in the eye of the light , and in face of the sun " .1 ' When a criminal was to be judged , or a cause to be decided , the Graff and the Free ...
Pagina xi
... respect to the actual constitution of those last - named courts . " The protocols of their pro- ceedings , ' he says , ' do not altogether realize the popular idea of their terrors and tyranny . ' It may be allowed to me to question ...
... respect to the actual constitution of those last - named courts . " The protocols of their pro- ceedings , ' he says , ' do not altogether realize the popular idea of their terrors and tyranny . ' It may be allowed to me to question ...
Pagina xiii
... respect liable to the summary process , or to the inquisitorial proceeding , unless he had revealed the secrets of the court . He was presumed to be a true man ; and if accused upon vehement suspicion , or " Leumund " , the same ...
... respect liable to the summary process , or to the inquisitorial proceeding , unless he had revealed the secrets of the court . He was presumed to be a true man ; and if accused upon vehement suspicion , or " Leumund " , the same ...
Pagina 5
... respect paid by the younger to the elder , had not escaped the observation of the natives , who , like other sequestered beings , were curious in proportion to the limited means of information which they possessed . They observed also ...
... respect paid by the younger to the elder , had not escaped the observation of the natives , who , like other sequestered beings , were curious in proportion to the limited means of information which they possessed . They observed also ...
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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...