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THE

PICCOLOMINI,

OR THE

FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN,

A DRAMA

IN FIVE ACTS,

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF

FREDERICK SCHILLER

BY

S. T. COLERIDGE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O, REES, PATERNOSTER ROW

1800.

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IT was my intention to have prefixed a 'Life of Wallenftein to this tranflation; but I found that it must either have occupied a fpace wholly difproportionate to the nature of the publication, or have been merely a meagre catalogue of events narrated not more fully than they already are in the Play itself. The recent tranflation, likewise, of Schiller's HISTORY of the THIRTY YEARS' WAR diminished the motives thereto. In the tranflation I endeavoured to render my Author literally wherever I was not prevented by abfolute differences of idiom; but I am confcious, that in two or three thort paffages I have

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I have been guilty of dilating the original; and, from anxiety to give the full meaning, have weakened the force. In the metre I have availed myself of no other liberties than those which Schiller had permitted to himself, except the occafional breaking-up of the line by the fubftitution of a trochee for an iambic; of which liberty, fo frequent in our tragedies, I find no inftance in these dramas.

S. T. COLERIDGE.

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