The Heidenmauer: Or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine, Volume 1Carey & Lea, 1832 - American literature |
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Page ix
... appearance of some vast and antiquated pile devoted to a single object . Perhaps the boroughs of the Rhine have less of this picturesque , or landscape effect , than the villages of France and Italy , for the Germans regard space more ...
... appearance of some vast and antiquated pile devoted to a single object . Perhaps the boroughs of the Rhine have less of this picturesque , or landscape effect , than the villages of France and Italy , for the Germans regard space more ...
Page x
... appearance of strength , and we hoped to penetrate the mountains which bound the Palatinate on its south - western side , and to reach Kaiserslautern , on the great Napoleon road , before the hour of rest . The main object had been ...
... appearance of strength , and we hoped to penetrate the mountains which bound the Palatinate on its south - western side , and to reach Kaiserslautern , on the great Napoleon road , before the hour of rest . The main object had been ...
Page xii
... appearance of German faith , and more than all were we pleased with the German neatness and comfort , of which there ... appeared more suggested by hu- manity than the love of gain , our usual hour for eating was named , and , by way of ...
... appearance of German faith , and more than all were we pleased with the German neatness and comfort , of which there ... appeared more suggested by hu- manity than the love of gain , our usual hour for eating was named , and , by way of ...
Page xvi
... appeared everywhere through the scanty soil , the sun beat powerfully on the rocks ; and I was beginning to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of pro- ceeding , when the tailor approached , with the zeal of new - born courage . to ...
... appeared everywhere through the scanty soil , the sun beat powerfully on the rocks ; and I was beginning to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of pro- ceeding , when the tailor approached , with the zeal of new - born courage . to ...
Page xxii
... appearance suggested was natural . It embraced the long and mysterious concealment of so vast a portion of the earth as America , from the acquaintance of civilized man ; its dis- covery and settlement ; the manner in which violence and ...
... appearance suggested was natural . It embraced the long and mysterious concealment of so vast a portion of the earth as America , from the acquaintance of civilized man ; its dis- covery and settlement ; the manner in which violence and ...
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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...