The Heidenmauer; Or, The Benedictines: A Legend of the Rhine, Volumes 1-2Lea & Blanchard, 1841 |
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... wilt yet lose this service , Gottlob , by thy carelessness ! " " It would be a thousand pities were thy words to be true , for in that case Lord Emich would lose the honestest cow - herd in Germany , and it would go near to break my ...
... wilt yet lose this service , Gottlob , by thy carelessness ! " " It would be a thousand pities were thy words to be true , for in that case Lord Emich would lose the honestest cow - herd in Germany , and it would go near to break my ...
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... wilt , foster- brother of mine , but leave us our Devil , if it be only to make battle against the Abbot ! " 66 Notwithstanding thy big words , I well know that none among us has , at heart , a greater dread of this very hill than ...
... wilt , foster- brother of mine , but leave us our Devil , if it be only to make battle against the Abbot ! " 66 Notwithstanding thy big words , I well know that none among us has , at heart , a greater dread of this very hill than ...
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... wilt readily believe , when I tell thee it was no other than the voice of the Anchorite of the Cedars . Our acquaintance then and there commenced , since which time D 2 THE HEIDENMAUER . 41 glance upward convinced me that the stone was ...
... wilt readily believe , when I tell thee it was no other than the voice of the Anchorite of the Cedars . Our acquaintance then and there commenced , since which time D 2 THE HEIDENMAUER . 41 glance upward convinced me that the stone was ...
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... wilt , " said the forester peevishly , and not without severity . 66 " There are situations in which it is as difficult to go back as to go forward , " observed Gottlob ; " else , Berchthold , I might take thee at thy word , and go back ...
... wilt , " said the forester peevishly , and not without severity . 66 " There are situations in which it is as difficult to go back as to go forward , " observed Gottlob ; " else , Berchthold , I might take thee at thy word , and go back ...
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... wilt , son , and such counsel as a weak head , but a sincere heart , can render , shall not be withheld . " " How this would lighten the heart of my old mother to hear ! Gottlob , ' would she say 99 " What has become of thy companion ...
... wilt , son , and such counsel as a weak head , but a sincere heart , can render , shall not be withheld . " " How this would lighten the heart of my old mother to hear ! Gottlob , ' would she say 99 " What has become of thy companion ...
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Abbé Abbey Abbot of Limburg altar Anchorite answered art thou aught baron Benedictine better Bonifacius brother brotherhood burghers Burgomaster castle chapel character child choir church companion Count Emich Count of Hartenburg Count of Leiningen countenance cow-herd Deurckheim discourse Dost thou doubt duty Einsiedlen faith Father Arnolph Father Johan Father Siegfried favor feeling forester Gottlob hamlet hath heart Heaven Heidelberg Heidenmauer Heinrich Frey heresy hermit Herr Count Herr Emich holy Abbot honor Ilse Jaegerthal Knight of Rhodes less listened look Lord Count Lord Emich Lottchen manner Master Berchthold means ment Meta mind monk mother mountain nature never noble opinions Palatinate penitent pilgrims pious prayers prelate princely Prior reverence Rhine Ritterstein Saint Saint Gall scarce shrine soul speak thee thine Thou art thou hast Thou knowest thou wilt thought tion town truth Ulrike Venloo walls wish worship wouldst young Berchthold youth
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Page 80 - He who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Page 211 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 138 - In a strange land Such things, however trivial, reach the heart. And through the heart the head, clearing away The narrow notions that grew up at home, And in their place grafting good will to all— ROGERS.