 | John Calvin Holbrook - 1897 - 384 páginas
...Alps, we reached the plain and saw the spot where, tradition says, William Tell shot, with his arrow, the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant. Crossing Lake Lucerne, with Mt. Pilatus in the distance, we reached the city of that name, where I... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - 1906 - 360 páginas
...to have been related of various individuals. Thus the incident often told of William Toll's shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of Gessler is a story much older than Tell himself. Folklore is made up of countless similar illusions... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - 1903 - 360 páginas
...to have been related of various individuals. Thus the incident often told of William Tell's shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of Gessler is a story much older than Tell himself. Folklore is made up of countless similar illusions... | |
 | Jean Sherwood Rankin - 1903 - 360 páginas
...to have been related of various individuals. Thus the incident often told of William TelPs shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of Gessler is a story much older than Tell himself. Folklore is made up of countless similar illusions... | |
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Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is covered by a handsome fountain. 
