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QUEEN. You hide it from us And are far worse than you would have us think. Standing must weary you. Assist her, countess, And let her rest awhile upon that seat. I shall be better in the open air. QUEEN. Attend her, countess. What a sudden illness! OLIVAREZ. The Marquis Posa waits, your majesty, With orders from the king. QUEEN. Admit him then. MARQUIS POSA. The former.
The Pisans have a significant motto: "Pisa pensa a chi posa." We did not, however, stay long enough in the town to experience the truth of the aphorism. Arrival in Rome Hotel de la Ville The Corso The Strangers' Quarter Roman Guides View from the Capitol "How are the Mighty fallen!"
The reader and still more the spectator is bewildered by Posa, and does not know any better than Carlos and the king know how to take him. Turning now to the portrait of the king we find there too the traces of a wavering purpose. The original conception was dark as Erebus.
His passion was the world, and the whole course Of future generations yet unborn. To do them service he secured a throne And lost it. Such high treason 'gainst mankind Could Posa e'er forgive himself? Oh, no; I know his feelings better. Not that he Carlos preferred to Philip, but the youth The tender pupil, to the aged monarch. The father's evening sunbeam could not ripen His novel projects.
We admire the Marquis de Posa in Schiller's "Don Carlos"; but, in his stead, we should not have anticipated the spirit of that age to the point of placing a philosopher of the eighteenth century among the heroes of the sixteenth, an encyclopedist at the court of Philippe II. Therefore, just as we have been in literary parlance monarchical under the Monarchy, republican under the Republic, we are to-day reconstructionists under the Consulate.
You're welcome to Madrid. I thank you for preserving in yourself A faithful servant to me. For as such I value him, my lords; and 'tis my will That you should honor him. What more remains? Princes, I thank you. Duke, let these be laid Before me in the council. Who waits further? How comes it that amidst my train of nobles The Marquis Posa ne'er appears?
ALVA. Dear Taxis, you must learn a little patience You cannot see the king. TAXIS. Not see him! Why? ALVA. You should have been considerate, and procured Permission from the Marquis Posa first Who keeps both son and father in confinement. TAXIS. The Marquis Posa! Right that is the man From whom I bring this letter. ALVA. Ah! What letter? TAXIS. A letter to be forwarded to Brussels. To Brussels?
LERMA. If I mistake not, prince, A few days since I noticed in your hands An azure-blue portfolio, worked in velvet And chased with gold. Yes, I had such a one. LERMA. And on the cover, if I recollect, a portrait Set in pearls? CARLOS. 'Tis right; go on. LERMA. I entered the king's chamber on a sudden, And in his hands I marked that same portfolio, The Marquis Posa standing by his side.
The Philip of the last two acts is sometimes pitiable, sometimes repulsive, never great. One is not very much surprised when he hires an assassin to kill Posa, instead of handing him over to the law. Of the remaining characters the queen is the most interesting. In her Schiller for the first time depicts a woman convincingly.
And as the imagination of the reader must reinforce that of the poet, reducing the generic again to the specific, and defining it into sharper individuality by a comparison with the experiences of actual life, so, on the other hand, the popular imagination is always poetic, investing each new figure that comes before it with all the qualities that belong to the genus; Thus Hamlet, in some one or other of his characteristics has been the familiar of us all, and so from an ideal and remote figure is reduced to the standard of real and contemporary existence; while Bismarck, who, if we knew him, would probably turn out to be a comparatively simple character, is invested with all the qualities which have ever been attributed to the typical statesman, and is clearly as imaginative a personage as the Marquis of Posa, in Schiller's "Don Carlos."
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