The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His WorksD. Appleton & Company, 1846 - 280 páginas |
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Página 120 - ... it ; my spirit so fine, so refreshing a nourishment. My existence is settled in 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. Fate has conquered the difficulties for me ; it has, I may say, forced me to the mark. From the future I expect everything.
Página 113 - 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 intimacy...
Página 62 - 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 127 - Universal philanthropy forms but a precarious and very powerless rule- of conduct ; and the " progress of the species " will turn out equally unfitted for deeply exciting the imagination. It is not with freedom that we can sympathize, but with free men. There ought, indeed, to be in history a spirit superior to petty distinctions and vulgar partialities ; our particular affections ought to be enlightened and purified ; but they should not be abandoned, or, such is the condition of humanity, our feelings...
Página 279 - Swedish army : but instead of deadening the courage of these hardy troops, they rouse it to a fierce consuming fire. Life falls in value, since the holiest of all lives is gone ; and death has now no terror for the lowly, since it has not spared the anointed head. With the grim fury of lions, the Upland, Smaland, Finnish, East and West Gothland regiments dash a second time upon the left wing of the enemy, which already making but a feeble opposition to Von Horn, is now utterly driven from the field.
Página 27 - ... in his piece or not. The writer of a work, which interests and excites the spiritual feelings of men, has as little need to justify himself by showing how it exemplifies some wise saw or modern instance, as the doer of a generous action has to demonstrate its merit, by deducing it from the system of Shaftesbury, or Smith, or Paley, or whichever happens to be the favourite system for the age and place.