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Pagina 11
... thou deservest to have thy bones broken , for undertaking a charge which thou art as incapable to perform , as thou art to guide us to heaven ! ' ' Peace , Arthur , ' said his father ; if you frighten the lad , he runs off , and we lose ...
... thou deservest to have thy bones broken , for undertaking a charge which thou art as incapable to perform , as thou art to guide us to heaven ! ' ' Peace , Arthur , ' said his father ; if you frighten the lad , he runs off , and we lose ...
Pagina 17
... Thou art right , my child , ' said the father . ' I still have that which binds me to life , even though I were to lose in thee all that is dear to me . - Our Lady and Our Lady's Knight bless thee and prosper thee , my child ! Thy foot ...
... Thou art right , my child , ' said the father . ' I still have that which binds me to life , even though I were to lose in thee all that is dear to me . - Our Lady and Our Lady's Knight bless thee and prosper thee , my child ! Thy foot ...
Pagina 56
... 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 : The mark was , as usual , a pigeon to a pole ...
... 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 : The mark was , as usual , a pigeon to a pole ...
Pagina 57
... thou aim at me , A single glance were worth the three . ' ' Here is rare rhyming , my worthy guest , ' said the Landamman , shaking his head ; fine words to make foolish maidens fain . But do not excuse it ; it is your country fashion ...
... thou aim at me , A single glance were worth the three . ' ' Here is rare rhyming , my worthy guest , ' said the Landamman , shaking his head ; fine words to make foolish maidens fain . But do not excuse it ; it is your country fashion ...
Pagina 69
... thou apply to her mainten- ance the rents and profits of the lands of Geierstein , which thou hast usurped from him . " - " Ital Schreckenwald , " I replied , “ I will not stop to ask if this mode of addressing me be according to my ...
... thou apply to her mainten- ance the rents and profits of the lands of Geierstein , which thou hast usurped from him . " - " Ital Schreckenwald , " I replied , “ I will not stop to ask if this mode of addressing me be according to my ...
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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...