The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His WorksCarter, Hendee,, 1833 - 301 páginas |
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Página 251 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
Página 58 - 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 anything. 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 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 - Genius, even in its faintest scintillations, is ' the inspired gift of God ;' a solemn mandate to its owner to go forth and labour in his sphere, to keep alive ' the sacred fire ' among his brethren, which the heavy and polluted atmosphere of this world is forever threatening to extinguish. Woe to him if he neglect this mandate, if he hear not its...
Página 98 - I have not those careless felicities, those varyings from high ' to low, that air of living freedom which Shakspeare has accustomed us, like spoiled children, to look for in every perfect work of this species. Schiller is too elevated, too regular and sustained in his elevation, to be altogether natural.
Página 65 - this curtain ; no one once within it will answer those he has left ' without ; all you can hear is a hollow echo of your question, as if
Página 42 - into its single tones, and it becomes a lullaby for children : pour it forth together in one quick peal, and the royal sound shall move the heavens.