The Life of Friedrich Schiller + Note Pages($13.99Value)

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Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the Sage of Chelsea, he became "the undoubted head of English letters" in the 19th century. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, he entered the University of Edinburgh to study for the ministry and became a schoolmaster teaching mathematics, first in Annan and then in Kirkcaldy. He abandoned the ministry, having lost his religious faith, and resigned from his post in 1818. He briefly enrolled as a law student before working as a tutor and contributing to the Edinburgh Encyclopædia. His discovery of German literature in 1819 during a bleak period of his life rekindled his belief in God and provided the catalyst for much of his early literary career as an essayist and translator. Excerpt Among the writers of the concluding part of the last century there is none more deserving of our notice than Friedrich Schiller. Distinguished alike for the splendour of his intellectual faculties, and the elevation of his tastes and feelings, he has left behind him in his works a noble emblem of these great qualities: and the reputation which he thus enjoys, and has merited, excites our attention the more, on considering the circumstances under which it was acquired. Schiller had peculiar difficulties to strive with, and his success has likewise been peculiar. Much of his life was deformed by inquietude and disease, and it terminated at middle age; he composed in a language then scarcely settled into form, or admitted to a rank among the cultivated languages of Europe: yet his writings are remarkable for their extent and variety as well as their intrinsic excellence; and his own countrymen are not his only, or perhaps his principal admirers.