 | Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 pages
...the people's chiefs Were wont to gather round our father's hearth, To read the old imperial charters, and To hold sage converse on the country's weal. Then needfully I listened, marking well What or the wise man thought, or good man wished ; And garner 'd up their wisdom in my heart. Hear then, and... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1863 - 628 pages
...most attractive work, " William Tell." In this drama, he proclaims the triumph of individual liberty over all the machinations of tyranny. Moreover, it...the beautiful words of Attinghausen, — ' Deluded hoy ; despise the land that gave thee hirth ? ' The day will come, when thou, with burning tears, '... | |
 | Pierre Corneille, Molière, Jean Racine, Friedrich Schiller, Victor Hugo - 1904 - 536 pages
...the people's chiefs Were wont to gather round our father's hearth, To read the old imperial charters, and To hold sage converse on the country's weal. Then needfully I listened, marking well What now the wise man thought, the good man wished, And garnered up their wisdom in my heart. Hear then,... | |
 | Kuno Francke, William Guild Howard - 1913 - 618 pages
...the people's chiefs Were wont to gather round our father's hearth, To read the old imperial charters, and To hold sage converse on the country's weal. Then needfully I listened, marking well What now the wise man thought, the good man wished, And garner 'd up their wisdom in my heart. Hear then,... | |
 | Kuno Francke, Isidore Singer - 1914 - 614 pages
...the people's chiefs Were wont to gather round our father's hearth, To read the old imperial charters, and To hold sage converse on the country's weal. Then needfully I listened, marking well What now the wise man thought, the good man wished, 256 And garner 'd up their wisdom in my heart. . Hear... | |
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... Wilt thou take A word of honest counsel from thy wife? I boast to be the noble Iberg's child, A man of wide experience. Many a time, As we sat spinning in the winter nights, My sisters and myself, the people's chiefs Were wont to gather round our... 