The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers

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K. Baedeker, 1884 - 390 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 76 - The castled crag of Drachenfels("> Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me ! 2.
Pàgina 93 - By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound; Beneath its base are heroes...
Pàgina 101 - Hildegarde interposed between them and insisted on a reconciliation, to which they reluctantly consented. Hildegarde then retired to the convent of Bornhofen, at the base of the rock on which the castles stand. Conrad's Grecian bride soon proved faithless, and he, overcome with shame and remorse, threw himself on his generous brother's breast, exclaiming that no consolation was now left him but his friendship.
Pàgina 266 - Under the first gallery the symbolic deity of each day steps out of a niche , Apollo on Sunday , Diana on Monday , and so on. In the highest niche, at noon, the Twelve Apostles move round a figure of the Saviour.
Pàgina 38 - Romanesque had attained its perfection. When the plague raged in Cologne in 1357, Richmodis von Lyskirchen, wife of the knight Mengis von Adocht, was attacked by the malady, and having fallen into a deathlike swoon, was interred in the Apostles' Church. Being awakened from her trance by a thievish gravedigger in his attempts to possess himself of her ring, she returned to the house of her husband, who imagining he beheld an apparition , declared he would sooner believe that his horses could ascend...
Pàgina 54 - Heribert, lord of the Seven Mountains, at his castle of Drachenburg. According to custom, the daughter of the host, the peerless Hildegunde, welcomed him with the offering of bread, wine, and fish. Her beauty riveted the gaze of the young knight, and Hildegunde and Roland were shortly affianced lovers. But their happiness was brief: Roland was summoned by Charlemagne to the crusade. Time sped on, and anxiously did Hildegunde await his return. But sad rumours came. The brave Roland was said to have...
Pàgina 266 - Saviour, bowing as they pass. On the highest pinnacle of the sidetower is perched a cock which flaps its wings, stretches its neck, and crows, awakening the echoes of the remotest nooks of the cathedraI.
Pàgina 38 - Scarcely had the words escaped his lips, says the legend, than horses' hoofs were heard mounting the stairs, and their heads were speedily seen looking out of a window in the upper story of the house. (Two horses' heads, affixed to the upper story of the house with the tower on the N.
Pàgina 232 - The ivy-clad ruins are moreover connected with innumerable historical associations, and the striking contrast here presented between the eternal rejuvenescence of nature and the instability of the proudest human monuments has called forth many a poetic effusion.
Pàgina 89 - Vu et approuve par nous, Commandant Russe de la Ville de Coblence, Janvier ler, 1814.

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