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Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Hyperion, a Romance. Kavanagh, a Tale
Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hyperion a Romance Kavanagh a Tale Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Subjects: American literature Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / American / African American Literary Criticism / Women Auth... more »ors Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. HEIDELBERG AND THE BARON. High and hoar on the forehead of the Jettenbiihl stands the Castle of Heidelberg. Behind it rise the oak-crested hills of the Geissberg and the Kaiserstuhl; and in front, from the wide terrace of masonry, you can almost throw a stone upon the roofs of the town, so close do they lie beneath. Above this terrace rises the broad front of the chapel of Saint Udalrich. On the left stands the slender octagon tower of the horologe; and on the right, a huge round tower, battered and shattered by the mace of war, shores up with its broad shoulders the beautiful palace and garden-terrace of Elizabeth, wife of the Count Palatine Frederick. In the rear are older palaces and towers, forming a vast, irregular quadrangle; -- Rodolph's ancient castle, with its Gothic gloriette and fantastic gables; the Giant's Tower, guarding the drawbridge over the moat; the Rent Tower, with the linden-trees growing on its summit; and the magnificent Ritter- saal of Otho-Henry, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Grand Seneschal of the Holy Roman Empire. From the gardens behind the castle, you pass underthe archway of the Giant's Tower into the great court-yard. The diverse architecture of different ages strikes the eye; and curious sculptures. In niches on the wall of Saint Udalrich's chapel stand rows of knights in armor, broken and ...« less