Friedrich Schiller Quotes
Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Schiller, Friedrich. The Poems and Ballads of Schiller. Translated by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Harper & Brothers, 1844.
Newport, Rhode Island, was a “hotbed” of patriots and was the 5th largest city in Colonial America. Wallace’s flag ship shelled military targets from the sea and threatened to bombard and destroy the town with naval gunfire. However, his superior, Admiral Graves, and he both thought that was too severe a step to take. So there was some restraint exercised by some British commanders in the American Revolution. The worst atrocities were in the South and committed by the British Army—the subject of the American motion picture, “The Patriot”.
Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.
