quedlinburgh

Updated: May 3, 2025

Suppose we were to take up that first volume of "Friedrich," and put outlines to it: shall we begin by looking for Henry the Fowler's tomb Carlyle himself asks if he has any at Quedlinburgh, and so downwards, rescuing what we can? That would certainly be making our work of some true use.

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art: Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870

The only military operations of which this part of the poem reminds us, are those which reduced the Abbey of Quedlinburgh to submission, the Templar with his cross, the Austrian and Prussian grenadiers in full uniform, and Curtius and Dentatus with their battering-ram. We ought not to pass unnoticed the slain war- horse, who will no more "Roll his red eye, and rally for the fight";

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2