Schinderhannes, the Robber of the RhineSmith, Elder, and Company, 1833 - 318 pages |
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... lives no longer than a common man . You see in those towers before you , struggling through the mists of morning and evening twilight , a palace which was one of the wonders of the time ; and your imagination shapes out of the moving ...
... lives no longer than a common man . You see in those towers before you , struggling through the mists of morning and evening twilight , a palace which was one of the wonders of the time ; and your imagination shapes out of the moving ...
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... live to - day a free man either in ruin or success . " It was nothing less than wise ; but why quarrel with the accomplishment of your own desires ? " " She offered , she herself - think of that ! to elope with me last night ; and 1 ...
... live to - day a free man either in ruin or success . " It was nothing less than wise ; but why quarrel with the accomplishment of your own desires ? " " She offered , she herself - think of that ! to elope with me last night ; and 1 ...
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... live - long night upon the face of a corpse ! In the grey dawn of the morning he dug a grave in the garden , and with such religious service as he could perform , committed the body to the earth . He then removed the articles of ...
... live - long night upon the face of a corpse ! In the grey dawn of the morning he dug a grave in the garden , and with such religious service as he could perform , committed the body to the earth . He then removed the articles of ...
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... lives in a paradise of the fancy , is inseparably associated with the beauties of nature ; and the idea of his lost Ida rose in the midst , like a spirit . The river , whose bitter waters had hitherto seemed to roll between them like ...
... lives in a paradise of the fancy , is inseparably associated with the beauties of nature ; and the idea of his lost Ida rose in the midst , like a spirit . The river , whose bitter waters had hitherto seemed to roll between them like ...
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... live where I am planted , bright , sharp and bitter , like a holly in a hedge , respect- ed by its more vulgar neighbours - because it can stop a gap just as well as the rest . " " You will live , Liese , where you have been planted ...
... live where I am planted , bright , sharp and bitter , like a holly in a hedge , respect- ed by its more vulgar neighbours - because it can stop a gap just as well as the rest . " " You will live , Liese , where you have been planted ...
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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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