A talent forms itself in solitude,
A character in the flowing tide of life.
—_Goethes 'Tasso'.]
[Footnote 58: Letter of May 5, 1784.]
[Footnote 59: But this performance was not the first in order of time. 'Cabal and Love' had already been played on the 13th of April by Grossmann's company at Frankfurt. Grossmann was an intelligent theatrical man, who had conceived a liking for Schiller; only he wished that the 'dear fiery man' would be a little more considerate of stage limitations.]
[Footnote 60: Moritz's critique is reprinted in J. Braun's "Schiller und
Goethe im Urteile ihrer Zeitgenossen", I, 103.]
[Footnote 61: From the letter of May 5, quoted above.]
[Footnote 62: In Bulwer's translation:
"He who has plucked the one, resigned must see
The sister's forfeit bloom:
Let Unbelief enjoy—Belief must be
All to the chooser;—the world's history
Is the world's judgment doom.">[
[Footnote 63:
Thou askest in a single moment that
Which only time can give with cautious hand.]