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Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, from 1794 to 1805
Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe from 1794 to 1805 Author:Friedrich Schiller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This friend is again in Ilmenau; his lady-love leaves this in a few days in order to have the yoke of matrimony put about his old stiff neck. As I really like hi... more »m, I wish him all possible happiness in this venture. Of other friends and acquaintances you shall hear soon in one way or another when we meet. Farewell, and give my kind greetings to your dear wife. Should you have an opportunity, would you kindly find out whether Justizrath Boie has received the six volumes of my new work which I sent him by way of thanks for the Cellini, as long ago as the 6th of June last? I have not heard anything of him since. 422.—Schiller to Goethe. Jena, February 2, 1798. Your remarks on the opera recalled to me some ideas which I discussed rather fully in my Esthetic Letters. It is certain that the ajsthetic, little as it can tolerate emptiness, is much less opposed to frivolity than to earnestness, and, therefore—as it is far more natural in Germans to be occupied with, and to determine matters, than to place themselves in a state of freedom—something aesthetic has already been gained when they have freed themselves from the weight of the subject, for their nature will take sufficient heed that their freedom is not wholly wanting in power and substance. For this reason I much prefer to see business-men, and philistines in general, engaged with this kind of playful humour than idle worldlings, for with the latter the play is always without power and character. We ought always to be able to serve each party according to its need, and thus I would send the one to the opera and the other to see a tragedy. Your Niirnberg Meistersdnger speaks to me like a voice from an entirely different age, and delighted me very The court.singer (Kammersangerin) Luise Rudorf, whom he marrie...« less