Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Volume I Part 31

[Footnote 85: One of Burns's words.--Tr.]

[Footnote 86: The bust of the Vatican Apollo, by which he would learn to model no other figure than his own.]

[Footnote 87: There is something in the use and application of the word _Wissenschaft_ which requires for its appreciation an understanding of the peculiar genius of the German mind.--Tr.]

[Footnote 88: Bacon's remark will recur to the reader.--Tr.]

[Footnote 89: A solar system is only a dotted profile of the genius of the world, but a human eye is his miniature. The _mechanics_ of the bodies of the universe the mathematical masters of reckoning may calculate, but the _dioptrics_ of the eye, growing bright amidst nothing but dull moistures, transcends our algebraic audit-offices, which therefore cannot reckon away from the imitated eyes (the gla.s.ses) the s.p.a.ce of diffusion and the narrow field.]

[Footnote 90: Jean Paul would probably have said Rubicon if he had not been going to say it elsewhere,--e. g. p. 199.]

[Footnote 91: Hieronym. cont. Jov. L 2.]

[Footnote 92: _Hof_ means in German _both_ court--and yard.--Tr.]

[Footnote 93: Bayle's Dictionary, Art. _Francois d'a.s.sise_, Note C.]

[Footnote 94: A half-way house.--Tr.]

[Footnote 95: Jean Paul probably means, that such n.o.ble hearts as Victor's Le Baut might shut up into silence, but could not with his Chamberlain's master-key open and find out their secrets.--Tr.]

[Footnote 96: In a later edition Jean Paul subst.i.tutes for _Schein-tod_ (sham death) a half French word, _Postiche-tod_ (supposit.i.tious death).--Tr.]

[Footnote 97: "On whose board he had a _stone_," literally,--a proverb for being in one's good graces.--Tr.]

[Footnote 98: There is an inconsistency in date of month here with p.

135.--Tr.]

[Footnote 99: The dog as well as myself know what island that is, but no more.]

[Footnote 100: "Burning-chambers," a name originally given to the place for judging criminals of state belonging to ill.u.s.trious families. The room was lined with black, and lighted with flambeaux. Originated with Francis I. in 1535, in his persecution of heretics.--Tr.]

[Footnote 101: Plebeian.--Tr.]

[Footnote 102: One at hearing from Emanuel, the other at seeing Clotilda.--Tr.]

[Footnote 103: Red drops fall from b.u.t.terflies in their last transformation, which they used to call b.l.o.o.d.y rain.]

[Footnote 104: When one looks a long time into the blue of heaven, it begins to undulate, and these waves in the air one imagines in childhood to be angels at play.]

[Footnote 105: This monologue is a fragment from an earlier dark hour, such as every heart of sensibility once suffers.]

[Footnote 106: _Noth-munzen_ means originally coin containing alloy, struck off in hard times.--Tr.]

[Footnote 107: The Hebrew language has but three vowels ("vowel-points") which, from the a.s.sistance they gave in enunciating a vast variety of words, were called _matres lectionis_, or mothers of the reading.--Tr.]

[Footnote 108: I. e. bowing so low.--Tr.]

[Footnote 109: Herkommen, as a common noun, means _tradition_ or _custom_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 110: An infusorial or minute animal, called in natural history _rotifera_ (wheel-bearer).--Tr.]

[Footnote 111: _Famulus_ is the Latin name in the German. Wagner was one in Faust.--Tr.]

[Footnote 112: So called in allusion to the _shaking_ they were giving it.--Tr.]

[Footnote 113: _Kopfstuck_ (lit. _head-piece_), a coin bearing the head of the regent.--Tr.]

[Footnote 114: The billiard-pockets (like the contribution-bags) used to have bells to them.--Tr.]

[Footnote 115: Who felt himself to be "a child picking up pebbles on the sh.o.r.e of the great ocean of truth."--Tr.]

[Footnote 116: A conventual term,--a six.--Tr.]

[Footnote 117: G.o.d bless you!--Tr.]

[Footnote 118: Many thanks!--Tr.]

[Footnote 119: Of course a parody on "Verb.u.m sat _sapienti_,"--"A word for the _fool_," &c.--Tr.]

[Footnote 120: Or reading-_easel_ (the latter word seeming to be an English corruption of the German _Esel_, a.s.s),--any book-rest.

_Maler-esel_ means a painter's easel.--Tr.]

[Footnote 121: When they occur in actual life.--Tr.]

[Footnote 122: Eclectic or miscellaneous science, not confined to one department.--Tr.]

[Footnote 123: A King of France once sent a va.s.sal _illum baculum, quo se sustentabat, in symbolum traditionis_. (Du Fresne's Glossary.) So far as I know, there has never been made a good and serviceable--abridgment of this _glossarium_ for ladies.]

[Footnote 124: Just as there are _listening sisters_ (_les Tourieres_ or _S[oe]urs ecoutes_) who go with the nuns into the conversing room, to overhear their talk.]

[Footnote 125: Or absentee-curates.--Tr.]

[Footnote 126: Literally _looker-on_,--one admitted to behold the secret ceremonies in the Eleusinian mysteries.--Tr.]

[Footnote 127: To know how to obey is a glory equal to that of commanding.--Tr.]

[Footnote 128: "Slaves are accounted n.o.bodies."--Tr.]

[Footnote 129: In real life.--Tr.]

[Footnote 130: _To make one a queue_ is a proverb for imposing on him (like pinning a rag to one's coat-tail?).--Tr.]

[Footnote 131: _Diet_ (from _dies_) _implies_ the idea of _day_, but the German "Reichs_tag_" makes the pun more palpable in the original.--Tr.]

[Footnote 132: A lady's watch, as is well known, shaped like a heart, provided on the back with a dial-gnomon and magnetic needle. The latter points out to the ladies (who hate _cold_) the _south_ also, in fact, and the sun-dial-index serves as a moon-dial-index.]

[Footnote 133: "Rome concealed the name of her G.o.d, and she was wrong; I conceal the name of my G.o.ddess, and I am right."]