Elizabeth
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Elizabeth: Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia What is a heroine - a heroine in history? The conditions of her career must be heroic not less than the personal qualities which that career displays; the cause for which she strives and suffers must be one raised high in the sight of men, her efforts must be on a scale from which ordinary women would shrink, and her actions able to bear the full blaze of the sun at noontide. At the time when Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James the First, was, in a poem cherished by many to whom her biography is terra incognita, apostrophised as "Th´ Eclipse and Glory of her kind" she had conferred no special benefit upon those among whom her lot was cast, beyond the light which every bright, happy and hopeful nature, whether of princess or beggar-maid, sheds on its surroundings. Nor is it necessary to assert that there was anything very uncommon in the general character of the experiences which she afterwards had to undergo. The joyous period of youth and hope is succeeded by a brief season of achievement or fruition - and then comes the last act, so much longer in real life than on the stage, when we know that, in common phrase, "all is over" with dreams of brilliant success or of perfect happiness, but when there is still time for the mind to show itself strenuous and the soul to prove itself strong. With most men or women, however, fate happily draws no absolutely hard and fast line of demarcation between the period of aspiration and that of disenchantment, and the life of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the ancestress of so many of our sovereigns, is impressively tragic because it forms a signal exception to this rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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