The Works of Frederick Schiller Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Works of Frederick Schiller novel. A total of 559 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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."
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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