The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers

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K. Baedeker, 1892 - 396 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 80 - 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...
Pàgina 96 - Beneath its l>ase are heroes' ashes hid, Our enemy's — but let not that forbid Honor to Marceau ! o'er whose early tomb Tears, big tears, gush'd from the rough soldier's lid, Lamenting and yet envying such a doom, Falling for France, whose rights he battled to resume.
Pàgina 268 - 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 around a figure of the Saviour.
Pàgina 105 - Conrad to single combat, but before the brothers' swords had crossed, Hildegarde's figure 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.
Pàgina 58 - ... Count 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...
Pàgina 102 - Hearing of the valiant deeds of his absent brother, his soul burned to share his honours, and wearied of an inactive life, he joined the crusades. Hildegarde now passed her days in the lonely castle of Liebenstein , brooding over her sad lot, not doubting the affection of Conrad, but weeping over the uncertainty of his return.
Pàgina 268 - 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 265 - Strassburg, with its 100,000 inhabitants, is the capital of Alsace and Lorraine, the seat of the governor and administration of that province, the headquarters of the 15th Corps of the German Army and the see of a Roman Catholic bishop. It is situated on the river 111 two miles from the Rhine, and is connected with the latter by a canal.
Pàgina 31 - Wasaf, a work said to have been composed at the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century.
Pàgina 7 - Christ, the cloth in which the body of John the Baptist was wrapped, and the linen cloth with which the Saviour was girded on the Cross...

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