The Heidenmauer: Or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine, Volume 1Carey & Lea, 1832 - American literature |
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Page 77
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim should know of their boldness ! " " Meta , they would not dare ! Poor Gisela is not the offspring of a stout citizen , but the warder of Hartenburg's child , and there may be some differ- ence in thy natures ...
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim should know of their boldness ! " " Meta , they would not dare ! Poor Gisela is not the offspring of a stout citizen , but the warder of Hartenburg's child , and there may be some differ- ence in thy natures ...
Page 83
... Burgomaster's door without attracting remark . CHAPTER V. " What news ? " " None , my lord ; but that the world is grown honest . " " Then is doomsday near ! " Hamlet . WITHIN the whole of these widely extended states , there is ...
... Burgomaster's door without attracting remark . CHAPTER V. " What news ? " " None , my lord ; but that the world is grown honest . " " Then is doomsday near ! " Hamlet . WITHIN the whole of these widely extended states , there is ...
Page 143
... Burgomaster to the Bailiff . Among the variety of idle and ill - digested remarks that are lavished on the American people and their institutions , it is a received pleasantry to joke on their attachment to official dignities . But he ...
... Burgomaster to the Bailiff . Among the variety of idle and ill - digested remarks that are lavished on the American people and their institutions , it is a received pleasantry to joke on their attachment to official dignities . But he ...
Page 146
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim . Were the countenance a certain index of the qualities of the mind , a physiognomist might have been at a loss to discover the motives which had in- duced Ulricka Hailtzinger , not only the fairest but the ...
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim . Were the countenance a certain index of the qualities of the mind , a physiognomist might have been at a loss to discover the motives which had in- duced Ulricka Hailtzinger , not only the fairest but the ...
Page 167
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim , and to her scarce fairer daughter . Young Berchthold stood aloof ; watching the inter- view with feelings allied equally to envy and jeal- ousy . " A fair morning and a comfortable mass to you , high - born ...
... Burgomaster of Deurckheim , and to her scarce fairer daughter . Young Berchthold stood aloof ; watching the inter- view with feelings allied equally to envy and jeal- ousy . " A fair morning and a comfortable mass to you , high - born ...
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Abbé Abbey Abbot of Limburg altar Anchorite answered art thou aught baron Benedict Benedictine better Bonifacius brother brotherhood burghers Burgomaster castle chapel character 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 Heidelberg Heidenmauer Heinrich Frey heresy hermit Herr Count Herr Emich holy Abbot honor Ilse Jaegerthal Knight Knight of Rhodes less listened look Lord Count Lord Emich Lottchen manner Master Berchthold means ment Meta mind monk 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 222 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 66 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Page 141 - And the gray habit lying by to shroud Her beauty and grace. When on her knees she fell, Entering the solemn place of consecration, And from the latticed gallery came a chant Of psalms, most saint-like, most angelical, Verse after verse sung out how holily, The strain returning, and still, still returning, Methought it acted like a spell upon her, And she was casting off her earthly dross ; Yet was it sad as sweet, and, ere it closed, Came like a dirge. When her fair head was shorn, And the long tresses...