Cooper's Works: The HeidenmauerJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1859 - American fiction |
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Page viii
... noble beauty , and the broad grandeur of the American stream . The latter , within the distance universally admitted to contain the finest parts of the Rhine , is both a large and a small river ; it has its bays , its narrow passages ...
... noble beauty , and the broad grandeur of the American stream . The latter , within the distance universally admitted to contain the finest parts of the Rhine , is both a large and a small river ; it has its bays , its narrow passages ...
Page xvii
... noble view from the sum- mit , but it would be premature to describe it here . The whole surface of the hill furnished evidence of the former extent of the Abbey , a wail having encircled the entire place ; but the principal edifices ...
... noble view from the sum- mit , but it would be premature to describe it here . The whole surface of the hill furnished evidence of the former extent of the Abbey , a wail having encircled the entire place ; but the principal edifices ...
Page xxi
... noble creature bore the image of God , and occasionally some master mind pierced the shades , catching glimpses of that eternal truth which pervades Nature . Then followed the Roman , with his gods of plausible attributes , his ...
... noble creature bore the image of God , and occasionally some master mind pierced the shades , catching glimpses of that eternal truth which pervades Nature . Then followed the Roman , with his gods of plausible attributes , his ...
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... noble digging into the earth with their teeth , after a few bitter herbs , while the carrion of a convent are rolling the finest and sweetest grasses over their tongues . Look you , Master Berchthold , these friars of Limburg eat the ...
... noble digging into the earth with their teeth , after a few bitter herbs , while the carrion of a convent are rolling the finest and sweetest grasses over their tongues . Look you , Master Berchthold , these friars of Limburg eat the ...
Page 60
... noble . The Elector has not a bolder knight , nor the emperor a truer vassal ; we say , therefore , that he seems to be brave and loyal . " " Thou makest great account , son , of these appa rent qualities . " 66 Knowing the frailty of ...
... noble . The Elector has not a bolder knight , nor the emperor a truer vassal ; we say , therefore , that he seems to be brave and loyal . " " Thou makest great account , son , of these appa rent qualities . " 66 Knowing the frailty of ...
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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.