The Life of Friedrich SchillerTaylor and Hessey, 1825 - 352 páginas |
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Página 347 - ... last a truce, in which neither party would consent to yield the victory, but each held himself invincible. Positions like the following grieved me to the very soul : How can there ever be an experiment, that shall correspond with an idea ? 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...
Página 72 - 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 175 - Often a proposition of inscrutable and dread aspect, when resolutely grappled with, and torn from its shady den, and its bristling entrenchments of uncouth terminology, and dragged forth into the open light of day, to be seen by the natural eye, and tried by merely human understanding, proves to be a very harmless truth, familiar to us from of old, sometimes so familiar as to be a truism.
Página 175 - ... 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 151 - ... harmonious composure ; not strained and impassioned, but peaceful and clear. I look to my future destiny with a cheerful heart; now when standing at the wished-for goal, I wonder with myself how it all has happened, so far beyond my expectations.
Página 140 - ... 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 302 - 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 120 - Schiller is too elevated, too regular and sustained in his elevation, to be altogether natural. Yet with all this, Carlos is a noble tragedy. There is a stately massiveness about the structure of it ; the incidents are grand and affecting ; the characters powerful, vividly conceived, and impressively if not completely delineated.
Página 80 - ... dreams, more smiling or more dark, as the sky above them was cheerful or gloomy; and their pictures deceive the eye when viewed from a distance. Many jugglers too make profit of this our universal curiosity : by their strange mummeries, they have set the outstretched fancy in amazement.