The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
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making it a monstrosity, a 'crow with peacock's feathers'.]
[Footnote 33: "Love gilds not for thee all the world with its glow, Never Bride in the clasp of thine arms shall repose; Thou canst see not our tears, though in torrents they flow. Those eyes in the calm of eternity close." --_Bulwer's Translation_.] [Footnote 34: As different poems undoubtedly Schiller's were variously signed, and as many of his youthful effusions were excluded by him from the collection of 1801, the sifting out of his share in the 'Anthology' and the ascription of the remaining poems to their proper authors are tasks of no small difficulty. The critical student should consult Weltrich, I, 501 ff.] [Footnote 35: Schiller seems to have got his idea of Rousseau chiefly from H.P. Sturz's "Denkwuerdigkeiten von Johann Jakob Rousseau" (1779). The famous 'Confessions' did not begin to appear until 1781. Curiously enough our poem refers to Rousseau as 'suckled on the banks of the Seine', and as having 'stood like a meteor on the banks of the Garonne'.] [Footnote 36: Geh, du Opfer dieses Trillingsdrachen, Huepfe freudig in den Todesnachen, Grosser Dulder, frank und frei! Geh, erzaehl' dort in der Geister Kreise |
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