Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist, Volume 2Cadell and Company, Edinburgh; and Simpkin and Marshall, London., 1829 - 381 páginas |
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Anne of Geierstein, Or The Maiden of the Mist: In Three Volumes, Volume 2 Walter Scott Visualização completa - 1829 |
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Alsace Anne of Geierstein Annette Veilchen answered appeared Archibald de Hagenbach arms Arnheim Arnold Biederman Arthur Philipson Bâle Baroness Berne betwixt Black Priest blood Bonstetten Canton of Uri castle chapel Charles of Burgundy companion cord damman damsel danger Duke of Burgundy Duke's dungeon duty elder Philipson English merchants Englishman executioner eyes faith father Ferette Ferry friar garrison German Golden Fleece Governor guests hand hath hear heard holy Holy Vehme honour horse Ital Schreckenwald John Mengs journey judges Kilian Kirch-hoff La Ferette lady Landamman looked maiden mistress never night noble pass person present Priest of Saint prisoner rank replied Rhine Saint Paul's secret seemed Sigismund Sir Archibald soldiers speak squire St Paul's stood stranger Strasburg Swiss sword tell thee ther thou art thought tion town traveller Tribunal trust Unterwalden Vehme voice wine words yonder young Philipson youth
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Página 3 - ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN; OR, THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST. CHAPTER I. The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke, To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen. Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives,
Página 268 - 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 dellsFruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells, . From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Página 29 - with priests who require entreaty, when gifts are held out to them." " Hear yet the words of the holy man," said the priest. " The time may come, and that shortly, when you would gladly desire to hear what you scornfully reject." " Speak on, but be brief," said Archibald de Hagenbach;
Página 344 - a single daisy twisted with content into one's hair, is worth all the opals in India, if they bind us to torment ourselves and other people, or hinder us from speaking our mind, when our heart is upon our tongue. But never fear, Arthur; for if she has the cruelty to think of forgetting you,
Página 195 - each conscious of his own high and secret purpose; each in his own chariot of clouds, and neither imparting to his companion the direction or purpose of his journey." " Excuse me, father," answered Philipson ; " I have neither asked your purpose, nor concealed my own, so far as it concerns you. I repeat, I am
Página 194 - had its origin in other swelling thoughts which arose in his mind, to mingle with and enhance the self-consequence of a powerful ecclesiastic. As Philipson looked on his companion from time to time, his scrutinizing glance was returned by a haughty smile, which seemed to say, " You may gaze on my form and features,
Página 32 - Let them be admitted," said the Governor, turning back in order again to descend to the street, " and bring them into the folter-kammer of the toll-house." So saying, he betook himself to the place appointed, which was an apartment in the large tower that protected the eastern gate-way, in which were deposited the rack, with
Página 161 - Indifferent, good friend," said the lady. " I dare not fly my hawk so near the broad river, lest he should soar to the other side, and so 1 might lose my companion. But I reckon on finding better game when I have crossed to the other side of the ferry, which we are now approaching.
Página 138 - was under my charge; and it is at this moment of greater additional value to me than even its actual worth, since it serves as my pledge and token for the performance of an important mission.—And how, my young friend," he continued, addressing Sigismund, " have you been, so fortunate as to recover what we have
Página 67 - murder—he, too, undaunted in so many dangers, resolute in so many encounters, lay bound and defenceless, exposed to the dagger of the meanest stabber. Arthur remembered, too, the giddy peak of the rock near Geierstein, and the grim vulture which claimed him as its prey. Here was no angel to burst through the mist,