Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Volume I Part 32

[Footnote 134: Or _Tensa_, the carriage on which they bore the images of the G.o.ds in the Circensian games.--Tr.]

[Footnote 135: A shrine.--Tr.]

[Footnote 136: Properly, a pitcher, or urn.--Tr.]

[Footnote 137: Here Jean Paul inserts, after "in die Federn," "(_nicht in die Feder_),"--i. e. _not into the pen_ (a German phrase for _dictating_). The pun could not be kept.--Tr.]

[Footnote 138: A watch that tells only the hours.--Tr.]

[Footnote 139: The reference is to Laurence Sterne, and the snuff-box he mentions in the early part of the "Sentimental Journey," as given him by a monk, and carried ever after as an amulet.--Tr.]

[Footnote 140: Ignatius's-plate means probably a breastplate, or medallion, consecrated by Ignatius Loyola.--Tr.]

[Footnote 141: I. e. to throw light upon it.--Tr.]

[Footnote 142: Like John Buncle, who went round, as was said, to propagate his faith and his species.--Tr.]

[Footnote 143: A fourth reason would be, that now, every time be loves another than Clotilda, he seems to earn a new claim to the grat.i.tude of his friend.]

[Footnote 144: Italian for everybody.--Tr.]

[Footnote 145: May there be a sly allusion--here to the possibility of their putting their hair up in papers torn from the leaves of Jean Paul's works?--Tr.]

[Footnote 146: Schickaneder was the Director of a Theatre in Vienna in the time of Mozart, and wrote the text for the _Magic Flute_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 147: A wreath given in derision to brides who before marriage had been unchaste.--Tr.]

[Footnote 148: And then are ready to verify the proverb: _Curses, like chickens, come home to roost_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 149: Musical interval.--Tr.]

[Footnote 150: Old scholastic term for a _past_ eternity, in contradiction to a coming eternity, _a parte post_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 151: The Invisible Lodge; a Biography in Two Parts. [A work of Jean Paul's.--Tr.]]

[Footnote 152: Such was the name of his Lords.h.i.+p's wife, who in her twenty-third year sank to rest in the eternal arms.]

[Footnote 153: In the original, _Semper-freie_ (always free,--eligible to office).--Tr.]

[Footnote 154: Hence too it was, that, so long as Victor was at the Parsonage, she avoided Flamin's society.]

[Footnote 155: The reader will remember this same remark, in so many words, on p. 223.--Tr.]

[Footnote 156: It turned out more fortunately, and without loss of the stones, and I had the satisfaction to find that no woman who read the first edition of this work has, in her womanlike _castling_ or _rotation in office_, at all interchanged the two _thats_. Nay, even the female readers of the second edition have remained consistent with themselves.]

[Footnote 157: Demoralization.--Tr.]

[Footnote 158: The German word _kleiden_; it has a corresponding double meaning of _dressing_, and also of _suiting_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 159: Science,--Mathematics.--Tr.]

[Footnote 160: Step-measurers.--Tr.]

[Footnote 161: Men ent.i.tled to lecture in three branches.--Tr.]

[Footnote 162: Or disciple of the indifferential calculus.--Tr.]

[Footnote 163: Or, in prose, fiery water-wheel.--Tr.]

[Footnote 164: "And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each and G.o.d of all?"

Coleridge, _The aeolian Harp_.]

[Footnote 165: _Fromm_ is the German. It is time the words _religious_ and _pious_ were redeemed from the base uses of sectarianism and bigotry.--Tr.]

[Footnote 166: _Enlightenment_ in an _empty_ heart is mere memory-work, let it strain the faculty of ac.u.men ever so much. Most men of our day resemble the new houses in Potsdam, in which (according to Reichard) Frederick the Second caused _lights_ to be placed at night, that every one, including Reichard himself, might think they were--_occupied_.]

[Footnote 167: Most men have, perhaps, only an equal number of good _thoughts_ and _actions_; but it is still an open question how long the virtuous man may interrupt his good thoughts (which have less need than good actions of the outer world) by indifferent ones.]

[Footnote 168: For the n.o.blest leans just the most on loving souls, or at least on his ideals of them, with which, however, he is only in so far satisfied as he regards them as pledges of future prototypes. I do not except either the Stoic (that Epicurean G.o.d) or the Mystic: both love in the Creator only the sum total of his creatures; we the former in the latter.]

[Footnote 169: The German _Vorwand_ means literally front wall (not far from the etymological meaning of _pretext_); so that there may be a figurative element here beyond what appears to the casual reader.--Tr.]

[Footnote 170: The reader of this letter will readily presuppose that Clotilda, as she does not know into whose hands it may fall,--in fact, it is actually in ours,--will have to hurry over her relations and mysteries (e. g. respecting Flamin, Victor, &c.) with an obscurity which to her proper reader was clear enough.]

[Footnote 171: Let the reader remember that she is master of as much of this biography as he, if not more.]

[Footnote 172: She means Giulia, from whose corpse grief had hurried her away.]

[Footnote 173:

"Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known," &c.

Michael Bruce.]

[Footnote 174: "Fly not from me, because I am always encompa.s.sed by a great shadow, which increases till at last it shall wall me up."]

[Footnote 175: Every seven years of human life.--Tr.]

[Footnote 176:

"Or had it drizzled _needle-points of ice_ Upon a feverish head made suddenly bald."

Coleridge's _Remorse_.]

[Footnote 177: As the spots in the moon are fields of flowers and plants.]

[Footnote 178: Here ended (in the original) the first volume.--Tr.]

[Footnote 179: So called, as it was made to answer for both bed and board. See the next sentence but one.--Tr.]