 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1830 - 436 pages
...And bent them low and meek ; Yet free from fright, they spoke outright, As Arpad bade them speak. " For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land ; For golden...saddle, Duna's stream — Now bring the deed to pass." The Herczeg laugh'd at first, nor cared For what the heralds brought ; But soon his rage o'ercame his... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1830 - 428 pages
...And bent them low and meek ; Yet free from fright, they spoke outright, As Arpad bade them speak. " For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land ; For golden...saddle, Duna's stream — Now bring the deed to pass." The Herczeg laugh'd at first, nor cared For what the heralds brought ; But soon his rage o'ercame his... | |
 | English poetry - 1830 - 524 pages
...And bent them low and meek ; Yet free from fright, they spoke outright, As Arpad bade them speak. " For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land ; For golden...saddle, Duna's stream — Now bring the deed to pass." The Herczeg laugh'd at first, nor cared For what the heralds brought ; But soon his rage o'ercame his... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pages
...that Swaloptuk, the last of their kings, sold his kingdom to the Magyars for a white horse : — 1 For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land ; For golden bit, the grass ; For the rich caddie, Dura's stream ; Now bring the deed to pase.' Mr. Paget's German servant gave this as a reason... | |
 | John Paget - Hungary - 1850 - 340 pages
...barns, and stables, and well-made corn-stacks, which are so often met with among the Magyars. How fan this may depend on the poverty of the soil it is difficult...walked along the banks of the river Waag to visit Skalko. a monastery at some little distance from Trentsin, said to have been the residence of a St.... | |
 | John Paget - Hungary - 1850 - 376 pages
...size, strongly formed, of a light complexion, with broad and coarse features MONASTERY OF SKALKO. 61 half shaded by their long flaxen hair. In some particular...walked along the banks of the river Waag to visit Skalko. a monastery at some little distance from Trentsin, said to have been the residence of a St.... | |
 | Henry Walter De Puy - Hungary - 1852 - 440 pages
...water for them to drink ; and from that time claimed dominion over the plains watered by the Danube. "For snow-white steed thou gav'st the land , For golden...bit, the grass ; For the rich saddle, Duna's stream ; H"ow bring the deed to pass." * Here Devojna, daughter of Swatopluk, princess of a band of Amazon... | |
 | 1840 - 794 pages
...kings, sold the country to Arpad, the chief of the Magyars, and a white steed and his trappings were part of the payment. " For snow-white steed thou gav'st...bit the grass, For the rich saddle Duna's stream." VOL. XH1. 4 K The subsequent intercourse with Hungary in the wars of the succession with Naples, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1840 - 628 pages
...Swaloptuk, the last of their kings, sold his kingdom to the Magyars for a white horse: — ' For snow white steed thou gav'st the land ; For golden bit, the grass; For the rich saddle, Dura's stream ; Now bring the deed to pass.' Mr. Paget's German servant gave this as a reason for his... | |
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The peasant women, when young, are sometimes pretty, but hard labour and exposure to the sun soon deprive them of all pretension to comeliness. Altogether I do not think I like the Sclavacks, but I really can scarcely say why; perhaps old Stephan infused... 