Cooper's Works: The HeidenmauerJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1859 - American fiction |
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Page vii
... means of sluices made in the short reign of the good King Louis , and , the same sum- mer , I had bestrode it , a brawling brook , on the icy side of St. Gothard . We had come now to look at its beauties in its most beautiful part , and ...
... means of sluices made in the short reign of the good King Louis , and , the same sum- mer , I had bestrode it , a brawling brook , on the icy side of St. Gothard . We had come now to look at its beauties in its most beautiful part , and ...
Page xxi
... means , and last , the most impressive of all , that beacon - like ambition which wrecked his hopes on the sea of its vastness , with the evidence of the falsity of his system as furnished in his fall . The memorial before me showed the ...
... means , and last , the most impressive of all , that beacon - like ambition which wrecked his hopes on the sea of its vastness , with the evidence of the falsity of his system as furnished in his fall . The memorial before me showed the ...
Page xxiii
... means , we held a conference , to which the worthy post - master was admitted . The following pages are the offspring of the convocation held in the parlor of the Ox . Should any musty German an- tiquary discover some immaterial ...
... means , we held a conference , to which the worthy post - master was admitted . The following pages are the offspring of the convocation held in the parlor of the Ox . Should any musty German an- tiquary discover some immaterial ...
Page 27
... means of a shrill instrument that was carried for that purpose , he soon succeeded in bringing its fel- low to his side . Coupling the grayhounds in a leash , which he attached to his own person , he threw the horn from its noose , and ...
... means of a shrill instrument that was carried for that purpose , he soon succeeded in bringing its fel- low to his side . Coupling the grayhounds in a leash , which he attached to his own person , he threw the horn from its noose , and ...
Page 35
... means , for the protection of those who composed the brotherhood . " There is a moon for a monk as well as for a cow - herd , it would seem , " observed Gottlob , speak- ing however in a voice subdued nearly to a whis- per . " There ...
... means , for the protection of those who composed the brotherhood . " There is a moon for a monk as well as for a cow - herd , it would seem , " observed Gottlob , speak- ing however in a voice subdued nearly to a whis- per . " There ...
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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 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 303 - 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 124 - I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ! Pro.