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Pagina 6
... youth from the Grison country , who acted as their guide , so far as his knowledge of the mountains permitted . He said they designed to go to Bâle , but seemed desirous to travel by circuitous and unfrequented routes . The circum ...
... youth from the Grison country , who acted as their guide , so far as his knowledge of the mountains permitted . He said they designed to go to Bâle , but seemed desirous to travel by circuitous and unfrequented routes . The circum ...
Pagina 10
... scarce avail us among these mountains , ' answered the youth ; for though that wonderful needle may keep its point to the northern Pole - star , when it is on a flat surface like the sea , it is not 10 CHAP . I ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.
... scarce avail us among these mountains , ' answered the youth ; for though that wonderful needle may keep its point to the northern Pole - star , when it is on a flat surface like the sea , it is not 10 CHAP . I ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.
Pagina 17
... perilous adventure . Descending from the platform on which he stood , by the boughs of an old ash - tree , which thrust itself out of the cleft of a rock , the youth was enabled to gain , though at great risk CHAP . II 17 ANNE OF ...
... perilous adventure . Descending from the platform on which he stood , by the boughs of an old ash - tree , which thrust itself out of the cleft of a rock , the youth was enabled to gain , though at great risk CHAP . II 17 ANNE OF ...
Pagina 18
Walter Scott. youth was enabled to gain , though at great risk , a narrow ledge , the very brink of the precipice , by creeping along which he hoped to pass on till he made himself heard or seen from the habitation , of whose existence ...
Walter Scott. youth was enabled to gain , though at great risk , a narrow ledge , the very brink of the precipice , by creeping along which he hoped to pass on till he made himself heard or seen from the habitation , of whose existence ...
Pagina 19
... youth went forward on his awful journey , step by step , winning his way with a caution and fortitude and presence of mind , which alone could have saved him from instant destruction . At length he gained a point where a projecting rock ...
... youth went forward on his awful journey , step by step , winning his way with a caution and fortitude and presence of mind , which alone could have saved him from instant destruction . At length he gained a point where a projecting rock ...
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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...