Aesthetical & Philosophical Essays. Tr. From the German..
Aesthetical & Philosophical Essays. Tr. From the German..
Friedrich Schiller
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Under the pretext of good humor and of sentiment people tolerate these poverties : but this good humor and this sentiment ought to be carefully pro- scribed. The Muses of the Pleisse, in particular, are singularly pitiful ; and other Muses resppnd to them, from the banks of the Seine, and the Elbe. If these pleasant- ries are flat, the passion heard on our tragic stage is equally pitiful, for, instead of imitating true nature, it is only an Digitized by Google JB6THETICAL LETTERS ANIK ESSAYS. 8...31 insipid and ignoble expression of the actual. Thus, after shedding torrents of tears, you feel as you would after visiting a hospital or reading the ''Human Misery" of Saltzmann. But the evil is worse in satirical poetry and comic romance, kinds which touch closely on every -daj- life, and which consequentl}', as all frontier posts, ought to be in safer hands. In truth, he less than any other is called on to become the painter of his centurj', who is himself the child and caricature of his century.
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