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Before us thou shalt send a shaft, And shew a sample of thy craft. Break up the court, for here the proof, Admits no strait inclosing roof." The courtly train then left the hall, The troop of archers past ; And guarded still by watchful eye3, Tell with his son went last.
When William Tell was doom’d to die, Or hit the mark upon his infant’s head—. The bell toll’d out, the hour was nigh, And soldiers march'd with grief and dread! The warrior came, serene and mild, Gaz’d all around with dauntless look, Till his fond boy unconscious smil’d; Then nature and the father spoke. And, now, each valiant Swiss ...
Freidrich von Schiller. (From Act IV, Scene III) Translated by C. T. Brooks. HE must needs come along this hollow pass; No other road will lead to Küssnacht. Here. I ’ll do the deed. The opportunity. Is favorable; behind yon elder-bush.
William Tell is Switzerland's great folk hero - the man who shot an apple from his son's head with a crossbow. And the man who is credited with igniting the rebellion which freed what is now Switzerland from Hapsburg rule. Main Location: Switzerland.
Tell and his son were both to be executed; however, he could redeem his life by shooting an apple off the head of his son Walter in a single attempt. Tell split the apple with a bolt from his crossbow. Gessler then noticed that Tell had removed two crossbow bolts from his quiver, so he asked why. Tell was reluctant to answer, but Gessler ...
The boy looked like he was about to cry, but then he heard his father’s voice. “Look right at me my son, and do not be afraid.”. The boy stood up straight, took a deep breath, and looked right at his father. He put his hands by his sides and held his head up high. William Tell by Peter Bourgeois.
6 lut 2024 · Many people know the story of William Tell shooting the apple from his son’s head, but few the context in which it happened. In William Tell, Schiller’s last completed play, this context – the struggle of the liberation of Switzerland from Austrian tyranny – is conveyed in fast-paced action. Tell is the model of the unpolitical citizen ...
