The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His WorksCharles Follen George Dearborn & Company, 1837 - 294 páginas |
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Página 236 - simple but memorable words, expressive of the mild heroism of the man. About six he sank into a deep sleep , once for a moment he looked up with a lively air, and said,
Página 164 - Ish» maelites, their hands against every man, and every man's hand against them ; the instruments of rapine ; tarnished with almost every vice, and knowing scarcely any virtue but those of reckless bravery and uncalculating obedience to their leader...
Página 58 - ... schemes oft baffled ; and men fail in their schemes not so much from the want of strength as from the ill-direction of it. The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something : the strongest by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish any thing. The drop, by continual falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock ; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
Página 56 - ... its dark. And if it is distressing to survey the misery, and, what is worse, the debasement of so many gifted men, it is doubly cheering, on the other hand, to reflect on the few, who, amid the temptations and sorrows to which life in all its provinces (and most in theirs) is liable, have travelled through it in calm and virtuous majesty, and are now hallowed in our memories, not less for their conduct than their writings. Such men are the flower of this lower world : to such alone can the epithet...
Página 115 - On the whole, this personal meeting has not at all diminished the idea, great as it was, which I had previously formed of Goethe ; but I doubt whether we shall ever come into any close communication with each other. Much that still interests me has already had its epoch with him. His whole nature is, from its very origin, otherwise constructed than mine ; his world is not my world ; our modes of conceiving things appear to be essentially different. From such a combination, no secure, substantial...
Página 143 - ... old, sometimes so familiar as to be a truism. Too frequently the anxious novice is reminded of Dryden in the Battle of the Books ; there is a helmet of rusty iron, dark, grim, gigantic ; and within it, at the farthest corner, is a head no bigger than a walnut.
Página 226 - In foreign parts, too, Are strange wonders. I was speaking with a man From Baden: a Knight, it seems, was riding To the King ; a swarm of hornets met him By the way, and...
Página 165 - Much of the cruelty and repulsive harshness of these soldiers, we are taught to forget, in contemplating their forlorn houseless wanderings, and the practical magnanimity, with which even they contrive to wring from Fortune a tolerable scantling of enjoyment. Their manner of existence Wallenstein has, at an after period of the action, rather movingly expressed : Our life was but a battle and a march, And, like the wind's blast, never-resting, homeless, We storm'd across the war-convulsed Earth.
Página 114 - ... men and things of every shape and hue to have their own free scope in his conception, as they have it in the world where Providence has placed them. The other is earnest, devoted ; struggling with a thousand mighty projects of improvement ; feeling more intensely as he feels more narrowly...
Página 251 - Woe to him if he turn this inspired gift into the servant of his evil or ignoble passions ; if he offer it on the altar of vanity, if he sell it for a piece of money !