Der schwan in sage und leben: eine abhandlung

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E. Beck, 1863 - History - 58 pages
 

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Page 59 - Moyle, be the roar of thy water ; Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, While, murmuring mournfully, Lir's lonely daughter Tells to the night-star her tale of woes. When shall the swan, her death-note singing, Sleep, with wings in darkness furl'd ? When will heaven, its sweet bells ringing, Call my spirit from this stormy world...
Page xxxiv - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 59 - Moyle ! to thy winter wave weeping, Fate bids me languish long ages away ; Yet still in her darkness doth Erin lie sleeping, Still doth the pure light its dawning delay ! When will that day-star, mildly springing, Warm our isle with peace and love ? When will Heaven, its sweet bell...
Page 59 - Moyle, to thy winter-wave weeping, Fate bids me languish long ages away ; Yet still in her darkness doth Erin lie sleeping, Still doth the pure light its dawning delay. When will that day-star, mildly springing, Warm our isle with peace and love? When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing, Call my spirit to the fields above Î COME, SEND ROUND THE WINE.
Page xxx - Sed et deiuceps sanctus martyr multis se virtutibus manifestavit in populis. Nec moratus, super cryptam illam basilicam magnam jussit aedificari. In proximo autem est et alia basilica, in qua Paschasia ' quaedam religiosa veneratur. Nam visum est eo tempore structoribus quamdam anum egressam fuisse ab ipsa basilica, nigra veste, cigneo capite, vultuque decoro, quae sic affata est structores : « Eia, dilectissimi, perficite opus bonum : eleventur machina e quibus erigitur haec structura , et merito...
Page xxxiv - Rursus ergo interrogavit, quod esset vocabulum gentis illius. Responsum est, quod Angli vocarentur. At ille, 'Bene,' inquit; 'nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in coelis decet esse coheredes.
Page xxxiv - ... contra fidem thori committitur, sed, quod mirabilius est, etiam aves zelant compares suas, et sui stimuli naturalis judicio puniunt illas, quae adulterant. Ecce, quod in regno Anglorum, episcopatu Londoniensi et comitatu Essexe, est castrum Angra nuncupatum, quod bonae memoriae Richardus de LUCÍ, domini avi vestri, illustrissimi régis Anglorum, in Anglia quondam justitiarius, construxit. Uno aliquo die, cum ad exedras palatii milites se misissent ad prospiciendum, ecce multitude cygnorum in...
Page lvi - Synodus avium depingens miseram faciem ecclesiae propter certamina quorundam, qui de primatu contendunt, cum oppressione recte meritorum 1557.
Page xxxiv - ... adinvicem diu vocibus suis contulissent, unus ex medio, sicut mos est accusatori vel ejus patrono, longo garritu querelam deponit, et cum ad unam partem quidam, tamquam judices, se facerent, tandem produci mandant cygnam. Duo igitur, missi a judicibus, ream in medio constituunt, et post factas hujusmodi garritiones vice allegationum tandem judices definiunt causam, ream adulterii toti gregi exponentes. Insultât cygnorum coetus, déplumât damnatam, et sic frigori expositam mortis addicunt supplieio.
Page xxxii - SWANS HATCHED DURING THUNDER. The fable of the singing of swans at death is well known; but I recently heard a bit of "folk lore" as to the birth of swans quite as poetical, and probably equally true. It is this : that swans are always hatched during a thunderstorm. I was told this by an old man in Hampshire, who had been connected with the care of swans all his life.

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