10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANZKNECHT»
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lanzknecht in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lanzknecht and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
fitures in the field are the occasion of elaborate ridicule. The Lanzknecht) were
foot-soldiers recruited from the roughs of Germany, and derived their name from
the long lance which they carried ; • but they were also armed subsequently with
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Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
The Lanzknecht's lance was eighteen feet long : he wore a helmet and
breastplate, and was taught to form suddenly and to preserve an impenetrable
square. Before him all light and heavy cavalry went down, and that great arm of
modern war ...
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The Prose Works: Containing The Abbot, Kenilworth, The ...
These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and
havingan idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused
admittance into heaven on account of his vices, and into hellon the score of his
tumultuous, ...
"Du bist ein comische man," said the lanzknecht, "I swear " " Not yet," said the
Bohemian — " Faces about, brave lanzknecht, and look to the east, else the
Kings may not hear you." The soldier took the oath in the manner prescribed, and
then ...
It was a. matter of economy to get up a war in order to provide employment for the
Lanzknecht. Hans Sachs wrote a very amusing piece in I558, entitled, “ The Devil
won't let Landskncchts come to Hell.” Lucifer, being in council one evening, ...
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The Waverley novels. 25 vols.
"Da bist ein comische man," said the lanzknecht, "I swear " "Not yet," said the
Bohemian — "Faces about, brave lanzknecht, and look to the east, else the Kings
may not hear you." The soldier took the oath in the manner prescribed, and then ...
sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), 1863
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The Abbot. Kenilworth. The Pirate. The Fortunes Of Nigel. ...
These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having
an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance
into heaven. on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous,
...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: The Abbot. Kenilworth. ...
These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having
an idle tale current among themselves, that's lanzknecht was refused admittance
into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, ...
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The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes
These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having
an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance
into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, ...
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The Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley
Du bist ein comische man," said the Lanzknecht, " I was swear " "Not yet," said
the Bohemian — "Faces about, brave Lanzknecht, and look to the east, else the
Kings may not hear you." The soldier took the oath in manner prescribed, and
then ...
