The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Nottingham Society, 1920 |
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Pagina 2
... side numbers and discipline , and the advantage of the most perfect military equipment then known and confided in . Great was the wonder that cavalry , which made the only efficient part of the feudal armies of these ages , should be ...
... side numbers and discipline , and the advantage of the most perfect military equipment then known and confided in . Great was the wonder that cavalry , which made the only efficient part of the feudal armies of these ages , should be ...
Pagina 5
... side of the Alps , followed them with a sumpter mule , laden apparently with men's wares and baggage , which he some- times mounted , but more frequently led by the bridle . The travellers were uncommonly fine - looking men , and seemed ...
... side of the Alps , followed them with a sumpter mule , laden apparently with men's wares and baggage , which he some- times mounted , but more frequently led by the bridle . The travellers were uncommonly fine - looking men , and seemed ...
Pagina 7
... side of the lake , at times level and close on its very margin , at times rising to a great height on the side of the mountain , and winding along the verge of precipices which sank down to the water as sharp and sheer as the wall of a ...
... side of the lake , at times level and close on its very margin , at times rising to a great height on the side of the mountain , and winding along the verge of precipices which sank down to the water as sharp and sheer as the wall of a ...
Pagina 9
... sides thick wreaths of heaving mist , which , rolling through the rugged chasms that seamed the grisly hill , resembled torrents of rushing lava pouring down from a volcano . The ridgy precipices , which formed the sides of these huge ...
... sides thick wreaths of heaving mist , which , rolling through the rugged chasms that seamed the grisly hill , resembled torrents of rushing lava pouring down from a volcano . The ridgy precipices , which formed the sides of these huge ...
Pagina 12
... side , at what exact distance they could not well discern , but near enough to show tall abrupt rocks and shaggy pine - trees , here united in groups , and there singly anchored among the cliffs which overhung the water . This was a ...
... side , at what exact distance they could not well discern , but near enough to show tall abrupt rocks and shaggy pine - trees , here united in groups , and there singly anchored among the cliffs which overhung the water . This was a ...
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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...