The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His WorksCharles Follen George Dearborn & Company, 1837 - 294 páginas |
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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 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 237 - Calmer and calmer;' 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 — 'Many things were growing plain and clear to him!
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 !
Página 289 - The specific quality of an idea is, that no experiment can reach it or agree with it. Yet if he held as an idea the same thing which I looked upon as an experiment, there must certainly, I thought, be some community between us, — some ground whereon both of us might meet...
Página 289 - Schiller had much more prudence and dexterity of management than I; he was also thinking of his periodical the Horen, about this time, and of course rather wished to attract than repel me.
Página 117 - A strict similarity of characters is not necessary, or perhaps very favorable, to friendship. To render it complete, each party must no doubt be competent to understand the other ; both must be possessed of dispositions kindred in their great lineaments : but the pleasure of comparing our ideas and emotions is heightened, when there is
Página 249 - Literature was his creed, the dictate of hia conscience ; he was an Apostle of the Sublime and Beautiful, and this his calling made a hero of him. For it was in the spirit of a true man that he viewed it, and undertook to cultivate it ; and its inspirations constantly maintained the noblest temper in his soul. The end of literature was not, in Schiller's judgment, to amuse the idle, or to recreate the busy, by showy spectacles for the imagination, or quaint paradoxes and epigrammatic disquisitions...
Página 110 - Besides the intellectual riches which it carried with it, there was that flow of kindliness and unaffected good humor, which can render dulness itself agreeable. Schiller had many friends in Dresden, who loved him as a man, while they admired him as a writer. Their intercourse was of the kind he liked, sober, as well as free and mirthful. It was the careless, calm, honest effusion of his feelings that he wanted, not the noisy tumults and coarse delirium of dissipation. For this, under any of its...