Duke Christian of Luneburg: Or, Tradition from the Hartz, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 1175 pages |
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Adelheid agitated amongst answer archduke arms baron beauty beheld Bernhard de Saxe blood Bohemia bosom brave breast brother Brunswick cavalier CHAP Chris Christian of Brunswick Christian of Luneburg command countenance cried Croatia Croats Danube Darmstadt door Duke Duke of Luneburg Elector Elector of Saxony Elizabeth Emperor empire enemy England Ernest Ernest never exclaimed eyes father feel felt Ferdinand Frederick gazed George Germany hand happiness Hartz head heard heart Heaven Henry Henry the Lion her's hero honour horse hour Huldregan King knew Lady lips looked Mansfeldt Matthias ment mind monarch never night noble object palace passed peace person Prague present Prince of Luneburg Princess Queen racter replied returned Rhine Rodolph royal Saxony seemed shewed side sigh sight sister smile soul sovereign Spielberg spirit stood sword tears thee thought Thurn tian tion turned uttered voice whole wish Wolfen Wolfenbuttel words young youth
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Page iv - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 67 - Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday.
Page 354 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 150 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music ; Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter — that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences...
Page 67 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Page 266 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 378 - And in thus acknowledging to himself the verification of his own noble idea of man, " the paragon of animals, the beauty of the world ; in action, how like an angel — in apprehension, how like a God!
Page 6 - ... and of his own natural clemency, graciously pardoned their offences under certain conditions. They were to renounce their confederacy with the other states, and at the next diet to break their seals, erase their signatures, and to deliver up their letters and writings relating to their confederacy; to surrender without exception all the acts of their privileges and immunities, and to be satisfied with whatever the king should ordain or graciously restore ; to bring all their artillery and ammunition...
Page 38 - Prussia, has laid it down for an axiom — that " no man is a hero to his valet de chambre...