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"Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone."
The Visit of the Gods. (Imitated from Schiller.)
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"Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows; Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean."
The Homeric Hexameter. (Translated from Schiller.)
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"In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.)
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"The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths,--all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason."
Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. (Translated from Schiller.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Schiller has the material sublime."
Table Talk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain."
The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets."
Don Carlos. Act i. Sc. 6.
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