...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ... only be before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest splendour, the last free nobles in c... ...les that in practice he found insuper- able. At home Maximilian raised the Imperial power from a mere cipher to considerable weight. We judge him as i... ...rwitz most justly gets the credit of Maximilian’s perils on the steeple of Ulm, though, unfortunately, the artist has rep- resented the daring climber... ... they became affiliated, so prominent in all the councils of the good free city, and so noted for excellence in art and learning. Indeed the present h... ...her! Master Gottfried was going to ride as far as the confines of the free city’s territory, and his round, sleek, cream-coloured palfrey, used to amb...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...f the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city of Granada, galloped out of the camp, in full view of besiegers and be... ... in full view of besiegers and be- sieged, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly brave action,... ...own by the Emperor Maximilian when he displayed himself to the citizens of Ulm upon the topmost pinnacle of their cathedral spire; or of Alonso de Oje... ... be really withstood by any subject, and on Ambrose’s return, he found the imperial procession, lictors, guards, and all, escorting the Emperor as usu... ...hivalry wanted to reduce the cantons and cit- ies to vassalage, not to the Imperial Crown, a distant and scarcely felt obligation, but to the Duchy of...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: J... ...urope. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denmark defeated. — Death o... ...s in Germany. — Count Tilly takes the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imperial Troops. — Treaty with France. — Congress at Leipzig. — Siege and c... ... which reference had been made in the treaty, had already been held in the city of Trent; but, as might have been foreseen, without accommodating the ... ...ory of their own, entirely independent of the archi- episcopal see of that city. All the churches in the cities, villages, and market towns, which the... ...o hesitated. But the three cities of the Empire, Strasburg, Nuremburg, and Ulm, were no unimportant acquisition for the league, which was in great 54...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...