... blossom in the valley, to descend with his Crusaders and bring back to Germany the Golden Age of peace and strength and unity."1 So wrote Bryce in the early sixties of the nineteenth century. The Holy Roman Empire - Page 181by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1871 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
| Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn, Heinrich von Kreissle - 1866 - 314 pages
...enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear tree blossom in the valley, to descend with his crusaders...the golden age of peace, and strength, and unity." — The Holy Roman Empire, by James Bryce, BA See also A Vision of Barbarossa, by W. Stigant. WAY TO... | |
| Thomas Stanley Rogers - 1882 - 106 pages
...knights in an enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear-tree blossom in the valley, to descend with...and bring back to Germany the golden age of peace, strength, and security.' 1416. Snood.—Compare the custom of Greek maidens. 1417. According to Gibbon... | |
| George Meredith - Comedy - 1918 - 348 pages
...knights in an enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear-tree blossom in the valley, to descend with...Germany the golden age of peace and strength and unity.' The history of the legend has been studied by Georg Voigt (Historische Zeitschrift 26.131187) and Sigmund... | |
| Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher - Lawyers - 1927 - 398 pages
...ravens shall cease to hover round the peak and the pear tree blossom in the Valley, to descend with the Crusaders and bring back to Germany the Golden age...the just Emperor should be broken, and his shield should be hung aloft once more in the camp's midst, a sign of help to the poor and oppressed." A passage... | |
| Philosophy - 626 pages
...black mouth of a cavern and tell him that, within, Barbarossa lies in an enchanted sleep . . . waiting to descend with his crusaders and bring back to Germany the golden age." *5 Wagner: Prose, IV, 141, 144, for speech that follows. As such, he must no longer " cast in his lot... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1867 - 940 pages
...ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear-tree to blossom in the valley ;" then he shall descend with his crusaders, and " bring back to Germany the Golden Age of peace and strength and unity." A legend this, none the less beautiful for having counterparts in other lands. When all things are... | |
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