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Томас Карлейль. The Life of Friedrich Schiller
The Life of Friedrich Schiller
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION [1845.]
PART I
SCHILLER'S YOUTH (1759–1784)
PART FIRST [1759–1784.]
FOOTNOTES:
PART II
FROM SCHILLER'S SETTLEMENT AT MANNHEIM TO HIS. SETTLEMENT AT JENA. (1783–1790.)
PART SECOND [1783–1790.]
Act III. Scene X. The King and Marquis de Posa
FOOTNOTES:
PART III
FROM HIS SETTLEMENT AT JENA TO HIS DEATH (1790–1805.)
PART THIRD [1790–1805.]
Act I. Scene IV. Max Piccolomini, Octavio Piccolomini, Questenberg
Act IV. Scene X. Thekla; the Swedish Captain; Fräulein Neubrunn
Scene XI. Neubrunn; Thekla
Scene XII. Thekla
Act III. Scene IV
Scene V. A Knight [in haste]
Scene VI
Scene VII
Scene IX
Scene X. Lionel, Joanna
Act IV. Scene III
FOOTNOTES:
SUPPLEMENT OF 1872
HERR SAUPE'S BOOK [NOTE IN PEOPLE'S EDITION.]
SAUPE'S "SCHILLER AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD."
I. THE FATHER
II. THE MOTHER
III. THE SISTERS
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX I
NO. 1. PAGE 31. DANIEL SCHUBART
NO. 2. PAGE 33. LETTERS OF SCHILLER
NO. 5. PAGE 114. FRIENDSHIP WITH GOETHE
NO. 4. PAGE 125. DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX II
'Special Indication of the Localities represented
Nähere Bezeichnung der dargestellten Lokalitäten
Thomas Carlyle. Leben Schillers, aus dem Englischen; eingeleitet. durch. Goethe
Schillers Leben
SUMMARY AND INDEX
SUMMARY
PART I. SCHILLER'S YOUTH (1759–1784.)
PART II. FROM HIS SETTLEMENT AT MANNHEIM. TO HIS SETTLEMENT AT JENA (1784–1790:)
PART III. FROM HIS SETTLEMENT AT JENA TO HIS DEATH (1790–1805.)
SUPPLEMENT OF 1872
SCHILLER'S FATHER
HIS MOTHER
HIS SISTERS
APPENDIX I
No. 1. DANIEL SCHUBART
No. 2. LETTERS OF SCHILLER TO DALBERG
No. 3. FRIENDSHIP WITH GOETHE
No. 4. DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
APPENDIX II
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Thomas Carlyle
Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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It can now be hardly necessary to contradict these theories; or to show that none but a candidate for Bedlam as well as Tyburn could be seduced from the substantial comforts of existence, to seek destruction and disgrace, for the sake of such imaginary grandeur. The German nobleman of the fairest gifts and prospects turns out, on investigation, to have been a German blackguard, whom debauchery and riotous extravagance had reduced to want; who took to the highway, when he could take to nothing else—not allured by an ebullient enthusiasm, or any heroical and misdirected appetite for sublime actions, but driven by the more palpable stimulus of importunate duns, an empty purse, and five craving senses. Perhaps in his later days, this philosopher may have referred to Schiller's tragedy, as the source from which he drew his theory of life: but if so, we believe he was mistaken. For characters like him, the great attraction was the charms of revelry, and the great restraint, the gallows—before the period of Karl von Moor, just as they have been since, and will be to the end of time. Among motives like these, the influence of even the most malignant book could scarcely be discernible, and would be little detrimental, if it were.
Nothing, at any rate, could be farther from Schiller's intention than such a consummation. In his preface, he speaks of the moral effects of the Robbers in terms which do honour to his heart, while they show the inexperience of his head. Ridicule, he signifies, has long been tried against the wickedness of the times, whole cargoes of hellebore have been expended—in vain; and now, he thinks, recourse must be had to more pungent medicines. We may smile at the simplicity of this idea; and safely conclude that, like other specifics, the present one would fail to produce a perceptible effect: but Schiller's vindication rests on higher grounds than these. His work has on the whole furnished nourishment to the more exalted powers of our nature; the sentiments and images which he has shaped and uttered, tend, in spite of their alloy, to elevate the soul to a nobler pitch: and this is a sufficient defence. As to the danger of misapplying the inspiration he communicates, of forgetting the dictates of prudence in our zeal for the dictates of poetry, we have no great cause to fear it. Hitherto, at least, there has always been enough of dull reality, on every side of us, to abate such fervours in good time, and bring us back to the most sober level of prose, if not to sink us below it. We should thank the poet who performs such a service; and forbear to inquire too rigidly whether there is any 'moral' 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. The instructiveness of the one, and the virtue of the other, exist independently of all systems or saws, and in spite of all.
