Complete Works. Ed. with Careful Rev. and New Tr., by C.J. Hempel, Volume 2 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
already Antwerp appeared arms army attack Austria battle Bavaria bishops Bohemia Calvinists cause church citizens command Condé confidence Council Count Egmont Count Mansfeld courage court crown danger death defend Duke edicts Elector Elector of Saxony Emperor empire enemy estates eyes fate favor fear Ferdinand force former fortune France garrison gave Germany Gustavus Adolphus hands heart honor hope Huguenots human imperial Imperialists king King of Sweden king's kingdom latter laws League liberty Lower Saxony Lycurgus Mansfeld Marquis means ment mind monarch nation nature Netherlands never nobles officers oppression Palatinate party passion peace person Philip possession Prince of Orange Protestants provinces regent religion religious rendered Rhine Roman Catholic Saxony Scheldt secret secure seemed soon soul sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit Swedes Swedish sword territories thing thou thousand throne Tilly tion town treaty troops truth victory Viglius Wallenstein whole zeal
Populaire passages
Pagina 62 - Christians boasted that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church.
Pagina 212 - The soldier fired, and the king's left arm was shattered. At that moment his squadron came hurrying up, and a confused cry of "the king bleeds! the king is shot!" spread terror and consternation through all the ranks. "It is nothing — follow me...
Pagina 176 - The prayers of innocence excited some compassion in the hearts of the Germans, but none in the rude breasts of Pappenheim's Walloons. Scarcely had the...
Pagina 176 - No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. In a single church fifty-three women were found beheaded. The Croats amused themselves with throwing children into the flames ; Pappenheim's Walloons with stabbing infants at the mother's breast. Some officers of the League, horror-struck at this dreadful scene, ventured to remind Tilly that he had it in his power to stop the carnage.
Pagina 329 - Grave? Below, if we were blind to Love, Say, should we soar o'er Death, above? Would the weak soul, did Love forsake her, E'er gain the wing to seek the Maker? Love, only Love, can guide the creature Up to the Father-fount of Nature; What were the soul did Love forsake her? Love guides the Mortal to the Maker!