Emery County Progress | 1905-07-22 | Page 2 | Schiller's Mean Revenge

schiller s mean revenge when schiller was a boy at school he was tormented by a swiss tutor named duplig who came from the orisons canton years later when the poet wrote the robbers he re avenged himself on duplig and the orisons by introducing this il little e speech to be a scamp you must have genius moreover a spec al cli mate is needed tor for the growth of scamps and to prove this I 1 becom mend you to visit the grisoni anton it is the veritable athens of modern rascality in the later editions of or the robbers this quaint pit of spleen does not appear it is suggested that schiller was not moved to expunge it by any remorseful feeling but by b a very forcible protest from the resi dents of the abused canton against this calumny