Word: schiller
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...Schiller's Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell, Duray's History of France...
...play, "Alpine Roses," at the Madison-square Theatre, in New York, recalls a story told by students at Cornell about the talented Norwegian, who was for several years a professor there. Prof. Boyesen used to lecture upon German literature. He was at the time writing his "Goethe and Schiller," having become a Goethe enthusiast; and he was also-a fact that was familiar to the students-enamored with the lady who has since become his wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never...
...have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without having read either of them what a Goethe could say and did say, and what a Schiller could write...
...recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The instructor in German 4 seems to be at variance with usual literary authorities as regards the authorship of "Fiesco." When young we were taught it was by Schiller, but on his examination paper he ascribes it to Goethe. Some one is evidently in the wrong...