Schinderhannes, the Robber of the RhineSmith, Elder, and Company, 1833 - 318 pages |
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Page 73
... Peter Schwarz - or , when done into English , Peter the Black - straightway gathered himself up from the bench , and displaying a tall , ill - shaped , ungainly figure , shambled round the table , and clutching the jug , was about to ...
... Peter Schwarz - or , when done into English , Peter the Black - straightway gathered himself up from the bench , and displaying a tall , ill - shaped , ungainly figure , shambled round the table , and clutching the jug , was about to ...
Page 74
... Peter Schwarz is by this time in safe durance ; the landlord will be alone with us in the room ; and him I could slay as easily and suddenly as a fatted calf . " CHAPTER VI . THE OLD ADAGE OF THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIRE . When Kunz ...
... Peter Schwarz is by this time in safe durance ; the landlord will be alone with us in the room ; and him I could slay as easily and suddenly as a fatted calf . " CHAPTER VI . THE OLD ADAGE OF THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIRE . When Kunz ...
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... Peter Schwarz lay a finger on her , I would have drugged her posset myself , and set her in so sweet a sleep , that when awaking in paradise the next morn- ing , she would have rubbed her eyes , and cried , ' Hollo , my merry host , my ...
... Peter Schwarz lay a finger on her , I would have drugged her posset myself , and set her in so sweet a sleep , that when awaking in paradise the next morn- ing , she would have rubbed her eyes , and cried , ' Hollo , my merry host , my ...
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... Peter the Black , the insensible beast shook his ears at the flattery , emitted a groan of endurance at the stripes , and continued his jog trot . Oh ! the pain of such a flight , with darkness about your path , and murder at your heels ...
... Peter the Black , the insensible beast shook his ears at the flattery , emitted a groan of endurance at the stripes , and continued his jog trot . Oh ! the pain of such a flight , with darkness about your path , and murder at your heels ...
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... Peter the Black has abstained from his nightly dose , that he may do a deadlier mischief to him who has so often drug- ged his cold Moselle with Cognac ! Oh world ! world ! " There was a knocking at the door , as if with the butt end of ...
... Peter the Black has abstained from his nightly dose , that he may do a deadlier mischief to him who has so often drug- ged his cold Moselle with Cognac ! Oh world ! world ! " There was a knocking at the door , as if with the butt end of ...
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Page 58 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 34 - He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone : And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Page 61 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 61 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 59 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Page 175 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
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