I tore the fond shape from the bleeding love
And gave—albeit with tears.”
Sir E. B. Lytton’s Schiller.
[32] ] Marie von Arnim married Count von Kunheim, and retired with him to his estates in Prussia. She never saw Schiller again, nor did she ever forget him. A fine portrait of Schiller hung over her bed until her death. After the death of her husband, in the year 1814, Countess Kunheim returned to Dresden, and lived there in retirement until her death, in the year 1847. But she died without issue, and could not fulfil Schiller’s prophecy, and speak to weeping children and grandchildren assembled around her death-bed.
[33] ] Schiller’s own words.—See his correspondence with Körner.
[34] ] Schiller and his Times, by Johannes Scherr.—Vol. ii., p. 89.
[35] ] “Trip to Italy.”—Goethe’s Works.
[36] ] Goethe’s own words.—See “Trip to Italy,” Goethe’s works, vol. xxiii., p. 159.
[37] ] This cat story Goethe relates precisely as above, in his “Italian Trip.”—See Goethe’s Works, vol. xxiii., p. 181.
[38] ] Goethe’s own words.—See “Italian Trip,” vol. xxiv., p. 146.