Category: Biographies
The excuse for reprinting this somewhat insignificant Book is, that certain parties, of the pirate species, were preparing to reprint it for me. There are books, as there are horses, which a judicious owner, on fair survey of them, might prefer to adjust by at once shooting th...
'In Bohemia this Corps was visited by an infectious fever, and suffered by the almost pestilential disorder a good deal of loss. In this bad time, Schiller, who by his temperanc...
3. PART I.Among the writers of the concluding part of the last century there is none more deserving of our notice than Friedrich Schiller. Distinguished alike for the splendour of his int...
19. Part III. p. 12: 'Died at Mannheim, on the 27th of December 1806, inhis 85th year, Wolfgang Heribert, Reichsfreiherr von Dalberg; knighted by the Emperor Leopold on his coronation at Frankfort. A warm friend and patron of the arts and sciences;...
6. PART III.The duties of his new office naturally called upon Schiller to devote himself with double zeal to History: a subject, which from choice he had already entered on with so much ea...
5. ACT III. SCENE X.KING. You did my crown Some service: wherefore have you shunn'd my thanks? Our memory is besieged by crowds of suitors; Omniscient is none but He in Heaven. You should have soug...
17. ACT IV. SCENE III._The hollow way at Küssnacht. You descend from behind amid rocks; and travellers, before appearing on the scene, are seen from the height above. Rocks encircle the whole space;...
4. PART II.If to know wisdom were to practise it; if fame brought true dignity and peace of mind; or happiness consisted in nourishing the intellect with its appropriate food and surroundi...
10. SCENE XII.It is his spirit calls me! 'Tis the host Of faithful souls that sacrificed themselves In fiery vengeance for him. They upbraid me For this loit'ring: _they_ in death forsook him...
16. SCENE X.LIONEL. Accursed Sorceress, prepare for battle: Not both of us shall leave the place alive. Thou hast destroyed the chosen of my host; Brave Talbot has breath'd out his mighty s...
7. ACT I. SCENE IV.QUEST. [_has taken his hand_] Nay, draw not Your hand away, Count Piccolomini! Not on mine own account alone I grasp it, And nothing common will I say therewith. Octavio, Max, P...
22. PART III.Academical duties. Study of History: Cosmopolitan philosophy, and national instincts. History of the _Thirty-Years War_. (p. 119.)--Sickness, and help in it. Heavy trial for a l...
11. ACT III. SCENE IV.DUNOIS [_steps forward_]. My heart made choice of her while she was lowly; This new honour raises not her merit Or my love. Here, in the presence of my King And of this holy Arc...
8. ACT IV. SCENE X.THEKLA. The blame was mine! 'Twas I that forced them from you; Your voice was but the voice of Destiny. My terror interrupted your recital: Finish it, I pray you.
9. SCENE XI.THEKLA [_falls on Neubrunn's neck_]. Now, good Neubrunn, is the time to show the love Which thou hast always vow'd me. Prove thyself A true friend and attendant! We must go, Thi...
13. SCENE VI.LIONEL. Now God forbid! Rise, noble Talbot! This Is not a time for you to faint and sink. Yield not to Death; force faltering Nature By your strength of soul, that life depart not!
15. SCENE IX.JOANNA. Deceiver! Now I see thy craft. Thou hast, By seeming flight, enticed me from the battle, And warded death and destiny from off the head Of many a Briton. Now they reach...
2. PART III.The excuse for reprinting this somewhat insignificant Book is, that certain parties, of the pirate species, were preparing to reprint it for me. There are books, as there are ho...
14. SCENE VII.CHARLES [_observing Talbot_]. Ha! who is this that to the light of day Is bidding his constrained and sad farewell? His bearing speaks no common man: go, haste, Assist him, if a...
20. PART I.Introductory remarks: Schiller's high destiny. His Father's career: Parental example and influences. Boyish caprices and aspirations. (p. 3.)--His first schoolmaster: Training f...
21. PART II.Reflections: Difference between knowing and doing: Temptations and perils of a literary life: True Heroism. Schiller's earnest and steadfast devotion to his Ideal Good: Misery o...
12. SCENE V.1. PART II.