Correspondence of Schiller with Körner: Comprising Sketches and Anecdotes of Goethe, the Schlegels, Wielands, and Other Contemporaries, Band 1

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R. Bentley, 1849
 

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Seite 261 - ... the Saale, to converse with him alone. Schiller had looked forward with ardent expectation to this meeting; it was over, and nothing had come of it ; he could not but feel somewhat mortified. " The high idea I had conceived of Goethe," he tells Korner, " is not in the slightest degree lessened by personal acquaintance ; but I doubt if we shall ever draw very close towards each other. Much that still interests me, that I still wish and hope for, he has outlived. He is so far ahead of me — not...
Seite 261 - is not in the slightest degree lessened by personal acquaintance ; but I doubt if we shall ever draw very close towards each other. Much that still interests me, that I still wish and hope for, he has outlived. He is so far ahead of me — not so much in years as in experience of the world and self-development — that we cannot meet on the road. His whole life, from the very first, has run in a contrary direction to mine ; his world is not my world . . . But from so short an interview it is hard...
Seite 169 - Instead of a house, they have a castle ; a court, instead of society ; a banquet, instead of a dinner.
Seite 16 - All that others can do is to öfter assistance ; and now let us ask who should offer that assistance ? I do not know what you will think of what I am about to say. It may be a foolish fancy of mine, and often those fancies which one thinks one's best are foolish. I confess, however, that I should like to see a great deal of this work done by the London Companies. I hope that opinion, does not shock any one. I...

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