Duke Christian of Luneburg: Or, Tradition from the Hartz, Band 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 1175 Seiten
 

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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 67 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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...
Seite 38 - Prussia, has laid it down for an axiom — that " no man is a hero to his valet de chambre...

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