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...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 ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...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.... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rench invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly ordered by Maximilian to protect Bavaria. — Gustavus Adolphus passes the Le... ...em, rendered one state insensible to the distresses of another, save where national jealousy could indulge a mali- cious joy at the reverses of a riva... ...n destroyed. An interest more intense and more immediate than national ag- grandizement or patriotism, and entirely inde- pendent of private utility, ... ...s of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are ... ...t to the authority of their own church, for which, in part, there spoke an honourable antiquity, and a yet more honourable plurality of voices. But th... ...tle of a chimera, which men have so liberally bestowed upon it; but did it merit that appellation in the second? It had never entered into the head of...