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Pagina x
... speaking , he laid the mete - wand on the ground . The Graff then began to try the measure , by placing his right foot against the wand , and he was followed by the other Free Echevins in rank and order , according to seniority . The ...
... speaking , he laid the mete - wand on the ground . The Graff then began to try the measure , by placing his right foot against the wand , and he was followed by the other Free Echevins in rank and order , according to seniority . The ...
Pagina 8
... speak , my son , of what you little understand , ' said his father.Know , that till the middle of life be passed , men scarce distinguish true prosperity from adversity , or rather they court as the favours of fortune what they should ...
... speak , my son , of what you little understand , ' said his father.Know , that till the middle of life be passed , men scarce distinguish true prosperity from adversity , or rather they court as the favours of fortune what they should ...
Pagina 23
... speaking , it must have been totally indistinguish- able from that of the elemental war around them . The lad smiled at his patron's ineffectual attempts , and then raised his voice himself in a high , wild , and prolonged scream ...
... speaking , it must have been totally indistinguish- able from that of the elemental war around them . The lad smiled at his patron's ineffectual attempts , and then raised his voice himself in a high , wild , and prolonged scream ...
Pagina 49
... speaking on public affairs without reflection , and before the whole family ; but our tidings and my errand need not be concealed from a considerate person like you , who must indeed soon learn it from public rumour . You know doubt ...
... speaking on public affairs without reflection , and before the whole family ; but our tidings and my errand need not be concealed from a considerate person like you , who must indeed soon learn it from public rumour . You know doubt ...
Pagina 56
... speak not all at once ! —Anne of Geierstein , thou hast more sense and breeding than these boys - tell me how the game has gone . ' The maiden seemed a little confused at this appeal ; but answered with a composed and downcast look ...
... speak not all at once ! —Anne of Geierstein , thou hast more sense and breeding than these boys - tell me how the game has gone . ' The maiden seemed a little confused at this appeal ; but answered with a composed and downcast look ...
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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...