The Heidenmauer: Or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine, Volume 1Carey & Lea, 1832 - American literature |
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Page 65
... armed men in the castle , ready and anxious to assail our walls , under a vain belief that they contain riches and stores to repay the sac- rilege ; but we want precise knowledge of their numbers and intentions . Were we to send one of ...
... armed men in the castle , ready and anxious to assail our walls , under a vain belief that they contain riches and stores to repay the sac- rilege ; but we want precise knowledge of their numbers and intentions . Were we to send one of ...
Page 88
... armed men ; the saloons of the me- dium size which suited a baronial state , and all the appliances of that mingled taste in which comfort and luxury , as now understood , were unknown , but which was not without a portion of the effect ...
... armed men ; the saloons of the me- dium size which suited a baronial state , and all the appliances of that mingled taste in which comfort and luxury , as now understood , were unknown , but which was not without a portion of the effect ...
Page 89
... armed at all points , though this carelessly wore his morion , that had buckled on a breast - plate , and another leaned listlessly on his ar- quebuse or handled his pike . Here a group exer- cised , in levity , with their several ...
... armed at all points , though this carelessly wore his morion , that had buckled on a breast - plate , and another leaned listlessly on his ar- quebuse or handled his pike . Here a group exer- cised , in levity , with their several ...
Page 90
... armed heel ; while care , or at least se- vere thought , contracted the muscles around a hard and iron brow , which bore evident marks of familiar acquaintance with the casque . Perhaps this is the only country of Christendom , even now ...
... armed heel ; while care , or at least se- vere thought , contracted the muscles around a hard and iron brow , which bore evident marks of familiar acquaintance with the casque . Perhaps this is the only country of Christendom , even now ...
Page 134
... armed and irreligious men ? -are not thy ears hourly wounded by rude oaths , and thy eyes affronted by sights that should be thought unseemly in a sanctuary - Nay , that thou mayest not suppose I am ignorant of thy hidden intentions ...
... armed and irreligious men ? -are not thy ears hourly wounded by rude oaths , and thy eyes affronted by sights that should be thought unseemly in a sanctuary - Nay , that thou mayest not suppose I am ignorant of thy hidden intentions ...
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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...