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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Frederich Schiller in English.by Frederich Schiller.PREFACE TO THE SIXTH ED
The Works of Frederich Schiller in English.by Frederich Schiller.PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.The present is the best collected edition of the important works of Schiller which is accessible to readers in the English language.Detached poems or dramas have
- 559 Now, we know that the movements of the bodily frame which cause the feeling of pain run counter to the harmony by which it would exist in well-being; that is, that they are diseased. But disease cannot grow unceasingly, therefore they end in the total des
- 558 S 18.--Second Law.All that has been said of the transferrence of the mental sensations to the animal holds true of the transferrence of animal affections to the mental. Bodily sickness--for the most part the natural result of intemperance--brings its puni
- 557 Here again they met with new productions of nature, new dangers, new needs that called for new exertions. The collision of animal instincts drives hordes against hordes, forges a sword out of the raw metal, begets adventurers, heroes, and despots. Towns a
- 556 S 5.--Animal Sensations.So far we have met with such sensations only as they take their rise in an antecedent operation of the understanding; but we have now to deal with sensations in which the understanding bears no part. These sensations, if they are n
- 555 LETTER V.Raphael to Julius.It would be very unfortunate, my dear Julius, if there were no other way of quieting you than by restoring the first-fruits of your belief in you.I found with delight these ideas, which I saw gaining in you, written down in your
- 554 Now, my most worthy Raphael, let me look round. The height has been ascended, the mist is dissipated; I stand in the midst of immensity, as in the middle of a glowing landscape. A purer ray of sunlight has clarified all my thoughts. Love is the n.o.blest
- 553 LETTER II.Julius to Raphael.Your doctrine has flattered my pride. I was a prisoner: you have led me out into the daylight; the golden s.h.i.+mmer and the measureless vault have enraptured my eye. Formerly, I was satisfied with the modest reputation of bei
- 552 The touching and the sublime resemble in this point, that both one and the other produce a pleasure by a feeling at first of displeasure, and that consequently (pleasure proceeding from suitability, and displeasure from the contrary) they give us a feelin
- 551 Points that are only subordinate and partial in a system of final causes may be considered by art independently of that relation with the rest, and may be converted into princ.i.p.al objects. It is right that in the designs of nature pleasure should only
- 550 Two maxims are prevalent in relation to poetry, both of them quite correct in themselves, but mutually destructive in the way in which they are generally conceived. The first is, that "poetry serves as a means of amus.e.m.e.nt and recreation," a
- 549 But if the poetic instinct of Kleist leads him thus far away from the narrow circle of social relations, in solitude, and among the fruitful inspirations of nature, the image of social life and of its anguish pursues him, and also, alas! its chains. What
- 548 In the former case, he is a simple poet, in the second case, a sentimental poet.The poetic spirit is immortal, nor can it disappear from humanity; it can only disappear with humanity itself, or with the apt.i.tude to be a man, a human being. And actually,
- 547 Considered thus, nature is for us nothing but existence in all its freedom; it is the const.i.tution of things taken in themselves; it is existence itself according to its proper and immutable laws.It is strictly necessary that we should have this idea of
- 546 It is best of all that reason should command by itself without mediation, and that it should show to the will its true master. The remark is, therefore, quite justified, that true morality only knows itself in the school of adversity, and that a continual
- 545 But it may be objected, What is the use then of a graceful embodiment of conceptions, if the object of the discussion or treatise, which is simply and solely to produce knowledge, is rather hindered than benefited by ornament? To convince the understandin
- 544 Thus in the affective movements in which nature (instinct) acts the first and seeks to do without the will, or to draw it violently to its side, the morality of character cannot manifest itself but by its resistance, and there is but one means of preventi
- 543 But a great difficulty now presents itself from the idea alone of the expressive movements which bear witness to the morality of the subject: it appears that the cause of these movements is necessarily a moral cause, a principle which resides beyond the w
- 542 If the ends of creation are marked in man with more of success and of beauty than in the organic beings, it is to some extent a favor which the intelligence, inasmuch as it dictated the laws of the human structure, has shown to nature charged to execute t
- 541 It is, I repeat, quite a different thing; and this difference is connected not only with the objects to which we may have to direct our judgment, but to the very criterion of our judgment. The same object can displease us if we appreciate it in a moral po
- 540 It is impossible to know if the empire which man has over his affections is the effect of a moral force, till we have acquired the certainty that it is not an effect of insensibility. There is no merit in mastering the feelings which only lightly and tran
- 539 Notwithstanding this, a great point is gained already by the intervention of taste in the operations of the will. All those material inclinations and brutal appet.i.tes, which oppose with so much obstinacy and vehemence the practice of good, the soul is f
- 538 As every real existence proceeds from nature as a foreign power, whilst every appearance comes in the first place from man as a percipient subject, he only uses his absolute sight in separating semblance from essence, and arranging according to subjective
- 537 I take up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the appreciation of its works.The transition from the pa.s.sivity of sensuousness to the activity of thought and of will can be effected
- 536 The former is immediately certain through experience, the other through the reason.This is the point to which the whole question of beauty leads, and if we succeed in settling this point in a satisfactory way, we have at length found the clue that will co
- 535 But man can invert this relation, and thus fail in attaining his destination in two ways. He can hand over to the pa.s.sive force the intensity demanded by the active force; he can encroach by material impulsion on the formal impulsion, and convert the re
- 534 LETTER IX.But perhaps there is a vicious circle in our previous reasoning!Theoretical culture must it seems bring along with it practical culture, and yet the latter must be the condition of the former. All improvement in the political sphere must proceed
- 533 Consequently, when reason brings her moral unity into physical society, she must not injure the manifold in nature. When nature strives to maintain her manifold character in the moral structure of society, this must not create any breach in moral unity; t
- 532 Matter and Form. "These two conceptions are at the foundation of all other reflection, being inseparably connected with every mode of exercising the understanding. By the former is implied that which can be determined in general; the second implies i
- 531 All these essays bespeak the poet who has tried his hand at tragedy, but in his next paper, "On Grace and Dignity," we trace more of the moralist.Those pa.s.sages where he takes up a medium position between sense and reason, between Goethe and K
- 530 4. Though it be not accompanied by an abstract idea, beauty ought to be acknowledged as the object of a necessary enjoyment.A special feature of all this system is the indissoluble unity of what is supposed to be separated in consciousness. This distincti
- 529 AESTHETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS by Frederick Schiller CONTENTS INTRODUCTION VOCABULARY OF TERMINOLOGY LETTERS ON THE AESTHETICAL EDUCATION OF MAN AESTHETICAL ESSAYS:-- THE MORAL UTILITY OF AESTHETIC MANNERS ON THE SUBLIME THE PATHETIC ON GRACE AND DI
- 528 [25] Ulysses.[26] Achilles.[27] Diomed.[28] Ca.s.sandra.[29] It may be scarcely necessary to treat, however briefly, of the mythological legend on which this exquisite elegy is founded; yet we venture to do so rather than that the forgetfulness of the rea
- 527 SCENE--A hall prepared for a festival. The pillars are covered with festoons of flowers; flutes and hautboys are heard behind the scene.JOAN OF ARC (soliloquizing).Each weapon rests, war's tumults cease to sound, While dance and song succeed the b.l.
- 526 O'er the heights growls the thunder, while quivers the bridge, Yet no fear feels the hunter, though dizzy the ridge; He strides on undaunted, O'er plains icy-bound, Where spring never blossoms, Nor verdure is found; And, a broad sea of mist lyin
- 525 Go--and shout it even to yon portal: "Brutus is 'mongst Romans deemed immortal, For his steel hath pierced his father's breast."Go--thou knowest now what on Lethe's strand Made me a prisoner stand.-- Now, grim steersman, push thy
- 524 A.Eh? What? Has a diploma?In Suabia may such things be got?EPITAPH ON A CERTAIN PHYSIOGNOMIST.On every nose he rightly read What intellects were in the head And yet--that he was not the one By whom G.o.d meant it to be done, This on his own he never read.
- 523 Ay, the deuce, then look outside!Listen to my prayer!Praying, singing, I have tried, Wouldst thou have me swear?I shall be a steaming ma.s.s, Freeze to rock and stone, alas!If I don't remove.All this, love, I owe to thee, Winter-b.u.mps thou'lt
- 522 Say! shall peace 'neath crowns be now my theme?Shall I boast, ye princes, that ye dream?-- While the worm the monarch's heart may tear, Golden sleep twines round the Moor by stealth, As he, at the palace, guards the wealth, Guards--but covets ne
- 521 How joyous then the stream that our whole soul pervades!What life from out our glances pours!Sweet Philomela's song, resounding through the glades, Ourselves, our youthful strength restores!Oh, may this whisper breathe--(let Rieger bear in mind The s
- 520 Thy wife is destined to deceive thee!She'll seek another's arms and leave thee, And horns upon thy head will shortly sprout!How dreadful that when bathing thou shouldst see me (No ether-bath can wash the stigma out), And then, in perfect innocen
- 519 "You'd better now go homeward straight!Your servant! there's the door!For all your pains--one moment wait!I'll give you--liberal is the rate-- A piece of ruby-ore.In heaven such things are rareties; We use them for base purposes."
- 518 "One must hasten to h.e.l.l-fire, Go, Melpomene!Let a fury borrow lyre, Notes, and dress, of thee."Let her meet, in this array, One of these vile crews, As though she had lost her way, Soon as night ensues."Then with kisses dark, I trust, T
- 517 Thou art but a simpleton.Now thou mayest--more shame to thee-- Run away, because of me; Cupid, that young rogue, may glory Learning wisdom from thy story; Haste, thou sluggard, hence to flee As from gla.s.s is cut our wit, So, like lightning, 'twill
- 516 PREFACE.TOBOLSKO, 2d February.Tum primum radiis gelidi incaluere Triones.Flowers in Siberia? Behind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight. And yet--if ye were to exert yourselves!'Tis really so; we have been hunting
- 515 Where will a place of refuge, n.o.ble friend, For peace and freedom ever open lie!The century in tempests had its end, The new one now begins with murder's cry.Each land-connecting bond is torn away, Each ancient custom hastens to decline; Not e'
- 514 Dissension flies, all tempests end, And chained is strife abhorred; We in the crater may descend From whence the lava poured.A gracious fate conduct thee through Life's wild and mazy track!A bosom nature gave thee true,-- A bosom true bring back!Thou
- 513 The stage to him is pure and undefiled; Chased from the regions that to her belong Are Nature's tones, so careless and so wild, To him e'en language rises into song; A realm harmonious 'tis, of beauty mild, Where limb unites to limb in orde
- 512 "How far beneath me seems the earthly ball!The pigmy race below I scarce can see; How does my art, the n.o.blest art of all, Bear me close up to heaven's bright canopy!"So cries the slater from his tower's high top, And so the little w
- 511 Short is my course, during which I salute many princes and nations; Yet the princes are good--ay! and the nations are free.ILM.Poor are my banks, it is true; but yet my soft-flowing waters Many immortal lays here, borne by the current along.PLEISSE.Flat i
- 510 Man is in truth a poor creature,--I know it,--and fain would forget it; Therefore (how sorry I am!) came I, alas, unto thee!THE DANAIDES.Into the sieve we've been pouring for years,-- o'er the stone we've been brooding; But the stone never
- 509 Under me, over me, hasten the waters, the chariots; my builder Kindly has suffered e'en me, over myself, too, to go!THE GATE.Let the gate open stand, to allure the savage to precepts; Let it the citizen lead into free nature with joy.ST. PETER'S
- 508 LANGUAGE. Why can the living spirit be never seen by the spirit? Soon as the soul gins to speak, then can the soul speak no more! THE MASTER. Other masters one always can tell by the words that they utter; That which he wisely omits shows me the master of
- 507 "How can I know the best state?"In the way that thou know'st the best woman; Namely, my friend, that the world ever is silent of both.TO ASTRONOMERS.Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies; Think ye Nature but great, in that
- 506 Was it always as now? This race I truly can't fathom.Nothing is young but old age; youth, alas! only is old.TO THE MUSE.What I had been without thee, I know not--yet, to my sorrow See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands now are.THE LEARNED W
- 505 Alas! though truth may light bestow, Not always warmth the beams impart, Blest he who gains the boon to know, Nor buys the knowledge with the heart.For warmth and light a blessing both to be, Feel as the enthusiast--as the world-wise see.BREADTH AND DEPTH
- 504 And all worth in the man shall forever be o'er When in those three words he believes no more.Man is made free!--Man by birthright is free, Though the tyrant may deem him but born for his tool.Whatever the shout of the rabble may be-- Whatever the ran
- 503 The suns that wheel in varying maze?--That music thou discernest?No! Thou canst honor that in sport which thou forgettest in earnest.[52]THE FORTUNE-FAVORED. [53]Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each G.o.d Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright
- 502 Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,-- Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the bridge, That thou might'st see me from near, and learn to value my beauty, Which the voice of renown spreads through the wande
- 501 GERMAN FAITH. [50]Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called to the throne.But the envious fortune of war delivered the Austrian Into the hands of the foe, who overcame him in fight.With t
- 500 TO PROSELYTIZERS."Give me only a fragment of earth beyond the earth's limits,"-- So the G.o.dlike man said,--"and I will move it with ease."Only give me permission to leave myself for one moment, And without any delay I will engag
- 499 It is not the daylight that fills with its flood The sky!What a clamor awaking Roars up through the street, What a h.e.l.l-vapor breaking.Rolls on through the street, And higher and higher Aloft moves the column of fire!Through the vistas and rows Like a
- 498 Light as the rainbow's spring through the air, as the dart from the bowstring, Leaps the yoke of the bridge over the boisterous stream.But in his silent chamber the thoughtful sage is projecting Magical circles, and steals e'en on the spirit tha
- 497 We ever shun the caverns black, And revel in the glowing day; 'Tis we who light the world's dark track, With our life's clear and magic ray.Spring's joyful harbingers are we, And her inspiring streams we swell; And so the house of deat
- 496 Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free, To humble shepherds cloth appear A wondrous maiden, fair to see.Not born within that lowly place-- From whence she wandered, none could tell; Her parting footsteps left no trace, When
- 495 "Take the world!" Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies To the children of man--"take the world I now give; It shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize, So divide it as brothers, and happily live."Then all who had hands sough
- 494 And himself, on the back of the steed of his squire, Went after the chase to his heart's full desire, While the priest on his journey was speeding And the following morning, with thankful look, To the Count once again his charger he took, Its bridle
- 493 My gracious lady, soft and meek, Through pity, doubtless, feared to speak; That it has 'scaped me, sore I rue; What, lord, canst thou to help it do?"Into the neighboring wood then rode The Count, inflamed with wrath, Where, in his iron foundry,
- 492 And, when the figure was complete, A pair of dogs I chose me, fleet, Of mighty strength, of nimble pace, Inured the savage boar to chase; The dragon, then, I made them bait, Inflaming them to fury dread, With their sharp teeth to seize it straight, And wi
- 491 "There crowded, in union fearful and black, In a horrible ma.s.s entwined, The rock-fish, the ray with the th.o.r.n.y back, And the hammer-fish's misshapen kind, And the shark, the hyena dread of the sea, With his angry teeth, grinned fiercely o
- 490 The sun is glowing as a brand; And faint before the parching heat, The strength forsakes the feeble feet: "Thou hast saved me from the robbers' hand, Through wild floods given the blessed land; And shall the weak limbs fail me now?And he!--Divin
- 489 "Ye solemn powers men shrink to name, Your might is here, your rights ye claim-- Yet think not I repine Soon closed my course; yet I can bless The life that brought me happiness-- The fairest lot was mine!Living have I thy temple served, Thy consecra
- 488 THE PLAYING INFANT.Play on thy mother's bosom, babe, for in that holy isle The error cannot find thee yet, the grieving, nor the guile; Held in thy mother's arms above life's dark and troubled wave, Thou lookest with thy fearless smile upon
- 487 Then speaks the other, moved by fear: "This ring to me is far most dear Of all this isle within it knows-- I to the furies pledge it now, If they will happiness allow"-- And in the flood the gem he throws.And with the morrow's earliest ligh
- 486 Laid we not before his feet Earth's unbounded G.o.dlike womb?Yet upon his kingly seat Wanders he without a home?""Does no G.o.d compa.s.sion feel?Will none of the blissful race, With an arm of miracle, Raise him from his deep disgrace?In th
- 485 PUNCH SONG.(TO BE SUNG IN NORTHERN COUNTRIES.) On the mountain's breezy summit, Where the southern sunbeams s.h.i.+ne, Aided by their warming vigor, Nature yields the golden wine.How the wondrous mother formeth, None have ever read aright; Hid foreve
- 484 NADOWESSIAN DEATH-LAMENT.See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright, With the grace with which he sat While he saw the light.Where is now the st.u.r.dy gripe,-- Where the breath sedate, That so lately whiffed the pipe Toward the Spirit great?Where t
- 483 Believe me, together The bright G.o.ds come ever, Still as of old; Scarce see I Bacchus, the giver of joy, Than comes up fair Eros, the laugh-loving boy, And Phoebus, the stately, behold!They come near and nearer, The heavenly ones all-- The G.o.ds with t
- 482 THE YOUTH BY THE BROOK. [16]Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath, And to the waves the wreath consigned-- The waves that danced beneath."So fleet mine hours," he sighed, "away Like waves that restless flow: And so m
- 481 O, longing heart, no more delight-upbuoyed Let the sweet airy image thee befool!The arms that would embrace her clasp the void This feverish breast no phantom-bliss can cool, O, waft her here, the true, the living one!Let but my hand her hand, the tender,
- 480 I led the bride before the shrine!And saw the future years revealed, Gla.s.sed on my hope--one blooming field!More wide, and widening more, were given The angel-gates disclosing heaven; Round us the lovely, mirthful troop Of children came--yet still to me
- 479 The fairer riddles come from out the night-- The richer is the world his arms enclose, The broader stream the sea with which he flows-- The weaker, too, is destiny's blind might-- The n.o.bler instincts does he prove-- The smaller he himself, the gre
- 478 When first was seen by doting reason's ken, When many a thousand years had pa.s.sed away, A symbol of the fair and great e'en then, Before the childlike mind uncovered lay.Its blessed form bade us honor virtue's cause,-- The honest sense &#
- 477 Deaf to the joys she gives-- Blind to the pomp of which she is possessed-- Unconscious of the spiritual power that lives Around, and rules her--by our bliss unblessed-- Dull to the art that colors or creates, Like the dead timepiece, G.o.dless nature cree
- 476 Brethren, thus in rapture meeting, Send ye round the br.i.m.m.i.n.g cup,-- Yonder kindly spirit greeting, While the foam to heaven mounts up!CHORUS.He whom seraphs wors.h.i.+p ever; Whom the stars praise as they roll, Yes to him now drain the bowl Mortal
- 475 ZEUS. (Attempting to stop her mouth.) Be thou dumb!SEMELE. Embraces thee.ZEUS. (Pale, and turning away.) Too late! The sound escaped!--The Styx!--'Tis death Thou, Semele, hast gained!SEMELE. Ha! Loves Zeus thus?ZEUS.All heaven I would have given, had
- 474 ZEUS. (After a pause of astonishment.) Is Jupiter asleep? Will Nature Rush to her fall?--Can Semele speak thus?What, not an answer? Eagerly mine arms Toward thee are stretched--my bosom never throbbed Responsive to Agenor's daughter,--never Throbbed
- 473 SEMELE.My Beroe! What art thou murmuring there?JUNO. (In confusion.) Nothing, my Semele! Black gall torments Me also--Yes! a sharp, reproachful look With lovers often pa.s.ses as black gall-- Yet ox-eyes, after all, are not so ugly.SEMELE.Oh, Beroe, for s
- 472 SEMELE. Malicious heart! But say What brings thee to this spot from Epidaurus?'Tis not because the G.o.ds delight to dwell near Semele?JUNO. By Jupiter, naught else!-- What fire was that which mounted to thy cheeks When I p.r.o.nounced the name of Ju
- 471 TO THE SPRING.Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou!With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome now!Aha!--and thou returnest, Heartily we greet thee-- The loving and the fair one, Merrily we meet thee!Think'st thou of my maiden
- 470 Beauteous princess, ah! with fear Quakes before thy splendor, love, Seeking, as he ventures near, With his power thy breast to move!Soon from her immortal throne Heaven's great queen must fain descend, And in prayer for beauty's zone, To the hea
- 469 Arise, then, thou sunlight of morning, and fling O'er plain and o'er forest thy purple-dyed beams!Thou twilight of evening, all noiselessly sing In melody soft to the world as it dreams!Ah, sunlight of morning, to me thou but flingest Thy purple
- 468 Hark the guns, peal on peal, how they boom in their thunder!From host to host, with kindling sound, The shouting signal circles round, Ay, shout it forth to life or death-- Freer already breathes the breath!The war is waging, slaughter raging, And heavy t
- 467 Through the world which the Spirit creative and kind First formed out of chaos, I fly like the wind, Until on the strand Of its billows I land, My anchor cast forth where the breeze blows no more, And Creation's last boundary stands on the sh.o.r.e.I
- 466 Scarce thine eye can ope and close Ere life's dying sunset glows; Sinking sudden from its pride Into death--the Lethe tide.Ask'st thou whence thy beauties rise?Boastest thou those radiant eyes?-- Or that cheek in roses dyed?All their beauty (tho
- 465 Laura, see how joyousness embraces E'en the overflow of sorrows wild!How e'en rigid desperation kindles On the loving breast of Hope so mild.Sisterly and blissful rapture softens Gloomy Melancholy's fearful night, And, deliver'd of its
- 464 HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.[This and the following poem are, with some alterations, introduced in the Play of "The Robbers."]ANDROMACHE.Will Hector leave me for the fatal plain, Where, fierce with vengeance for Patroclus slain, Stalks Peleus' ru
- 463 On these grounds I might safely leave the chorus to be its own advocate, if we had ever seen it presented in an appropriate manner. But it must be remembered that a dramatic composition first a.s.sumes the character of a whole by means of representation o
- 462 ISABELLA.Live--for thy mother, live, my son-- Must I lose all?[She throws her arms about him with pa.s.sionate emotion.He gently disengages himself, and turning his face away extends to her his hand.DON CAESAR.Farewell!ISABELLA.I can no more; Too well my
- 461 The whole Chorus repeats.On the mountains is freedom, etc., etc.DON CAESAR, the Chorus.DON CAESAR (more collected).I use the princely rights--'tis the last time-- To give this body to the ground, and pay Fit honors to the dead. So mark, my friends, M
- 460 ISABELLA (interrupting him).Thou hast kept thy word.My son; to thee I owe the rescued one; Yes, thou hast sent her---- DON CAESAR (in astonishment).Whom, my mother, sayst thou, That I have sent?ISABELLA.She stands before thine eyes-- Thy sister.DON CAESAR