Memoirs of the Court and Aristocracy of Austria, Volumen1H. S. Nichols, 1896 |
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Página 147 - Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither." He kept his sisters with him as far as Valladolid, where he dismissed them.. From thence he went to Estramadura, where a small house was being built for him near the Jeromite convent of Yuste.
Página 365 - ... and no one ever knew it better : for he was for a quarter of a century director of the Archives of Vienna, and was thoroughly aware of all the secret windings of Habsburg policy. No evidence whatever of the treacherous plans imputed to Wallenstein, was found in his papers ; but, on the other hand, it is to be borne in mind that Gallas, on the 28th of February, 1634, wrote to the Emperor from Pilsen that Wallenstein was said to have burned, on the day before the catastrophe, 600 letters.
Página 3 - ... finances. Maximilian, thereupon, made a splendid entry into Ghent, clad in silver-gilt armour, and riding on a magnificent brown charger; instead of a helmet, he wore round his golden locks a precious wedding garland of pearls and costly jewels ; his retinue were electors, princes, bishops, and 600 noble lords. Having alighted at his quarters, he received a message from the princess, who sent to welcome him and to invite him to her. After supper, therefore, Maximilian rode by torchlight to her...
Página 205 - ... Rosicrucians, and adepts of every sort, whose ranks comprised not a few impostors, quacks, and needy adventurers. These conjurers undertook to prophesy from magic mirrors or boiling water; they promised to find for the Emperor the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone ; and even more than this, they gravely engaged in experiments to produce men, actual human beings, in the crucible, and to resuscitate mummies. Dr. John Dee, the celebrated English alchemist and necromancer, was one of the...
Página 299 - ... not to appear to take any notice of him. " The men were struck with a strange awe when Wallenstein's tall, thin figure glided along like a ghost ; there was about all his being something solemn, mysterious, and unearthly. The soldiers were fully convinced that their general had a bond with the powers of darkness ; that he read the future in the stars ; that he could not bear to hear the barking of the dog, nor the crowing of the cock ; that he was proof against bullet as well as against cut and...
Página 11 - Once he caused diligent inquiries to be made into his pedigree, when a wag wrote on the wall of the courtyard of his castle the well-known lines : — " When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? " The emperor wrote the answer underneath : — " I am a man as others be, But that the Lord exalted me."* The king of France he used to call a king of asses, because his subjects would bear any burden he imposed upon them ; the king of Spain, a king of men, as they only obeyed him in what...
Página 197 - ... to answer for, that we may spare them the responsibility of one more doubtful. When Maximilian was growing weaker and weaker, and death was making visible approaches, his son, the Archduke Matthias, begged him to think of his salvation, and not to neglect himself: to which advice the dying Emperor made answer : " My son, all this is needless. I hope through the mercy of God, and His merits, to be saved as surely as you can be. I have confessed all my sins to Christ, and thrown them on His passion...
Página 342 - His horse was wounded in the neck by a pistol-shot ; after which he himself had his left arm shattered by another ball. His first words were, " It is nothing, follow me;" but the wound was so severe that the bones protruded through the sleeve. He now begged the Duke of Lauenburg to remove him from the fray, and turned round ; but in the same moment, he received from the Imperialist Lieutenant-colonel Maurice von Falkenberg, the brother of that Swedish commandant who had been killed at the taking...
Página 299 - A tall, thin, proud figure, with sallow countenance and sternest features ; a lofty, commanding forehead, with short, bristling black hair; small, black, fiery, and piercing eyes ; dark, mistrustful looks ; his chin and lips covered with a pointed beard and thick mustachios, the ends of which stood stiffly out ; such was the man, as we may still see him in his portraits. His usual dress consisted of a buff jerkin and a white doublet, scarlet mantle and hose, a broad Spanish ruff, boots of Cordova...