Schiller: Dramatist, Historian and Poet: A Centenary Lecture Upon the Life and Genius of Friedrich Von SchillerWilliams & Norgate, 1860 - 91 pages |
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Agnes Sorel Amalia ardent army Attinghausen beautiful become betrothed bride Bride of Messina Bulwer Cæsar characters charming Croats dear death delineations Der Sturm despotism destiny Don Carlos drama DRAMATIST dread Duke early poems enemy Erde Farewell fate father fearful feelings fetters Fiesco freedom French Friedrich Schiller genius Genoa Gessler's Göthe greift großen hands happy hatred heart heaven heroes Himmel HISTORIAN honour human ideal Johanna Kabale and Liebe Karl King kommt Leben Lebt wohl Leiden liberty live Maid of Orleans Mannheim mighty mind nature Netherlands noble once oppressed patriotic period Piccolomini poet poetical poetry prince queen rank reader realisation resolves revenge Robbers Rudolstadt SCENE Schiller schrecklich seine sentiment side soul spirit storm struggle subdue success Swiss talent Tell thou thought tragedy translated treibt unglückliches Mädchen victory Wallenstein warmer Weimar wieder Wilhelm Tell William Tell youth
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Page 44 - Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation ; Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Timepiece of Creation ; Joy breathes on buds, and flowers they are; Joy beckons — suns come forth from heaven; Joy rolls the spheres in realms afar, — Ne'er to thy glass, dim Wisdom, given!
Page 88 - lean and flashy song' of an apt ear for harmony, combined with a maudlin sensibility, or a mere animal ferocity of passion, and an imagination creative chiefly because unbridled ; it was, what true poetry is always, the quintessence of general mental riches, the purified result of strong thought and conception, and of refined as well as powerful emotion. In his writings we behold him a moralist, a philosopher, a man of universal knowledge ; in each of these capacities he is great...
Page 56 - Who sows the serpent's teeth let him not hope To reap a joyous harvest. Every crime Has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel — dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Page 58 - There will my heart be eased, my tears will flow. 0 hasten, make no further questioning ! There is no rest for me till I have left These walls — they fall in on me— A dim power Drives me from hence — Oh...
Page 88 - Schiller was not one but many gifts. It was not the ' lean and flashy song ' of an ear apt for harmony, combined with a maudlin sensibility, or a mere animal ferocity of passion, and an imagination creative chiefly because unbridled : it was, what true poetry is always, the quintessence of general...
Page 44 - Firm mind to bear what fate bestows; Comfort to tears in sinless eyes; Faith kept alike with friends and foes; Man's oath eternal as the skies; Manhood, — the thrones of Kings to girth, Though bought by life or limb the prize ; Success to merit's honest worth; Perdition to the brood of lies!
Page 43 - ... the province of art, an immediate effect upon life itself. The mighty charm of his song has not only touched the imaginations of men, but even their consciences ; and the fiery zeal with which he entered into conflict with all that is base and vulgar, the holy enthusiasm with which he vindicated the acknowledged rights and the insulted dignity of man, more frequently and victoriously than any before him, make his name illustrious, not only among the poets, but among the noblest sages and heroes,...
Page 44 - Along their royal paths on high, March, brothers, march your dauntless way, As chiefs to victory ! Joy, from Truth's pure and lambent fires, Smiles out upon the ardent seeker ; Joy leads to virtue man's desires, And cheers as Suffering's step grows weaker. High from the sunny slopes of faith, The gales her waving banners buoy; And, through the shatter'd vaults of death, Lo, mid the choral angels, Joy ! Chorus.
Page 49 - At last the dreaded morning dawned ; but a thick fog, which lay brooding over all the field, delayed the attack till noon. Kneeling in front of his lines, the King offered up his devotions ; the whole army at the same moment, dropping on their right knees, uplifted a moving hymn, and the field-music accompanied their singing.
Page 72 - Schiller's poetry is less in form than in substance — less in subtle elegance of words than in robust health fulness of thought, which, like man himself, will bear transplanting to every clime. The vocation of his Muse is a Religious Mission ; she loses not her spiritual prerogative, though shorn of her stately pageantry, and despoiled of her festive robes. Her power to convert and to enlighten , to...