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Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos, tr. R. D. Boylan (in The Works of Friedrick Schiller, vol. III., London, 1872), 159 (the Marquis to the Queen):
Tell him, in manhood, he must still revere
The dreams of early youth, nor ope the heart
Of heaven’s all-tender flower to canker-wormsOf boasted reason,—nor be led astrayWhen, by the wisdom of the dust, he hearsEnthusiasm, heavenly-born, blasphemed.
Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos , tr. R. D. Boylan (in The Works of Friedrick Schiller , vol. III., London, 1872), 159 (the Marquis to the Qu...
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