Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending An Examination of His Works
Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending An Examination of His Works
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
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and its bristling intrenchmenta of uncoutt terminology, and dragged forth into the open light of day, to be seen by the natural eye, and tried by merely human understanding, proves to be a very harmless truth. Digitized by LjOOglC 138 SCHILLER S LIFE. familiar to us from of old, sometimes so familiar as to be : truism. Too frequently, the anxious novice is reminded oi Dryden in the Battle of the Books : there is a helmet of rusti iron, dark, grim, gigantic ; and within it, at the farthest cor n...er, is a head no bigger than a walnut. These are the gen eral errors of Kantean criticism : in the present works, they are by no means of the worst or most pervading kind ; and there is a fundamental merit which does more than counter- balance them. By the aid of study, the doctrine set before us can, in general, at length be comprehended ; and Schiller's fine intellect, recognisable even in its masquerade, is ever and anon peering forth in its native form, which all may understand, which all must relish, and presenting us with passages, that show like bright verdant islands in the misty sea of metaphysics.
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