The Romancist and Novelist's Library: New Series, Band 2William Hazlitt 1841 |
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Seite 36 - ... and by the weakness of his intellect, affectionate yet perverse, a poor lord and a handsome cripple, he required, if ever man required, the firmest and the most judicious training. But, capriciously as nature had dealt with him, the parent to whom the office of forming his character was intrusted was more capricious still.
Seite 1 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 34 - The domestics were all rejoiced to gratify their gentle mistress • and making no further inquiry, they seized the enormous stone. While they were raising it in their hands, and were now on the point of adjusting it over the fountain, Bertalda came running to the place, and cried with an air of command, that they must stop; that the water she used, so improving to her complexion, she was wont to have brought from this fountain, and that she would by no means allow it to be closed. This time, however...
Seite 7 - You may say so,' broke in the old lady, shaking her head, — ' you can give a better account of her than I can. When you return home from fishing, or from selling your fish in the city, you may think her frolics very delightful. But to have her...
Seite 22 - Thus speaking, he left the apartment, and the fisherman with his wife followed him, crossing themselves. Undine had sunk upon her knees ; she uncovered her face and exclaimed, while she looked fearfully round upon Huldbrand : " Alas, you will now refuse to...
Seite 38 - I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour : my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England ; if false, England was unfit for me.
Seite 48 - FATHER Heilmann had returned to the castle, as soon as the death of the lord of Ringstetten was made known in the neighbourhood ; and he arrived at the very hour when the monk, who had married the unfortunate couple, was hurrying from the door, overcome with dismay and horror. When father Heilmann was informed of this, he replied : " It is all well ; and now come the duties of my office, in which I have no need of an assistant.
Seite 23 - Huldbrand was so full of strange anxiety and emotion, that he knew not what answer to make her. He took her in his arms and carried her over, now first realizing the fact that this was the same little island from which he had borne her back to the old fisherman, the first night of his arrival. On the...
Seite 10 - What of her story, however, she related with most distinctness, was this, that while she was once taking a sail with her mother on the great lake, she fell out of the boat into the water ; and that when she first recovered her senses, she was here under our trees, where the gay scenes of the shore filled her with delight. " We now had another care weighing upon our minds, and one that caused us no small perplexity and uneasiness. We of course very soon determined to keep and bring up the child we...
Seite 23 - Undine," replied the knight, laughing ; " for pray remember, even were I disposed to leave you, both the church and the spiritual powers, the emperor and the laws of the realm, would require the fugitive to be seized and restored to you.