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| The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets. |
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| Friedrich von Schiller |
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| 1759–1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg. The poets of German romanticism were strongly influenced by Schiller, and he ranks as one of the founders of modern German literature, second only to Goethe.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  sh l´ r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Wilhelm Tell
A powerful tale of resistance to Austrian domination. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXVI, Part 6.
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- Bartlett’s Schiller Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Schiller, Friedrich von, 48444 to 48461
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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