It
probably
means an old tower, such as is often found in
the free cities, where, in a dark passage-way, a lamp is sometimes placed,
and a devotional image near it.
the free cities, where, in a dark passage-way, a lamp is sometimes placed,
and a devotional image near it.
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe
]
[Footnote 22: Rippach is a village near Leipsic, and Mr. Hans was a
fictitious personage about whom the students used to quiz greenhorns. ]
[Footnote 23: The original means literally _sea-cat_. Retzsch says, it is
the little ring-tailed monkey. ]
[Footnote 24: One-time-one, _i. e. _ multiplication-table. ]
[Footnote 25: "Hand and glove. " The translator's coincidence with Miss
Swanwick here was entirely accidental. The German is "thou and thou,"
alluding to the fact that intimate friends among the Germans, like the
sect of Friends, call each other _thou_. ]
[Footnote 26: The following is a literal translation of the song referred
to:--
Were I a little bird,
Had I two wings of mine,
I'd fly to my dear;
But that can never be,
So I stay here.
Though I am far from thee,
Sleeping I'm near to thee,
Talk with my dear;
When I awake again,
I am alone.
Scarce is there an hour in the night,
When sleep does not take its flight,
And I think of thee,
How many thousand times
Thou gav'st thy heart to me. ]
[Footnote 27: Donjon. The original is _Zwinger_, which Hayward says is
untranslatable.
It probably means an old tower, such as is often found in
the free cities, where, in a dark passage-way, a lamp is sometimes placed,
and a devotional image near it. ]
[Footnote 28: It was a superstitious belief that the presence of buried
treasure was indicated by a blue flame. ]
[Footnote 29: Lion-dollars--a Bohemian coin, first minted three centuries
ago, by Count Schlick, from the mines of Joachim's-Thal. The one side
bears a lion, the other a full length image of St. John. ]
[Footnote 30: An imitation of Ophelia's song: _Hamlet_, act 14, scene 5. ]
[Footnote 31: The Rat-catcher was supposed to have the art of drawing rats
after him by his whistle, like a sort of Orpheus. ]
[Footnote 32: Walpurgis Night. May-night. Walpurgis is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity. --The Brocken or Blocksberg is
the highest peak of the Harz mountains, which comprise about 1350 square
miles. --Schirke and Elend are two villages in the neighborhood. ]
[Footnote 33: Shelley's translation of this couplet is very fine:
("_O si sic omnia! _")
"The giant-snouted crags, ho! ho!
How they snort and how they blow!
[Footnote 22: Rippach is a village near Leipsic, and Mr. Hans was a
fictitious personage about whom the students used to quiz greenhorns. ]
[Footnote 23: The original means literally _sea-cat_. Retzsch says, it is
the little ring-tailed monkey. ]
[Footnote 24: One-time-one, _i. e. _ multiplication-table. ]
[Footnote 25: "Hand and glove. " The translator's coincidence with Miss
Swanwick here was entirely accidental. The German is "thou and thou,"
alluding to the fact that intimate friends among the Germans, like the
sect of Friends, call each other _thou_. ]
[Footnote 26: The following is a literal translation of the song referred
to:--
Were I a little bird,
Had I two wings of mine,
I'd fly to my dear;
But that can never be,
So I stay here.
Though I am far from thee,
Sleeping I'm near to thee,
Talk with my dear;
When I awake again,
I am alone.
Scarce is there an hour in the night,
When sleep does not take its flight,
And I think of thee,
How many thousand times
Thou gav'st thy heart to me. ]
[Footnote 27: Donjon. The original is _Zwinger_, which Hayward says is
untranslatable.
It probably means an old tower, such as is often found in
the free cities, where, in a dark passage-way, a lamp is sometimes placed,
and a devotional image near it. ]
[Footnote 28: It was a superstitious belief that the presence of buried
treasure was indicated by a blue flame. ]
[Footnote 29: Lion-dollars--a Bohemian coin, first minted three centuries
ago, by Count Schlick, from the mines of Joachim's-Thal. The one side
bears a lion, the other a full length image of St. John. ]
[Footnote 30: An imitation of Ophelia's song: _Hamlet_, act 14, scene 5. ]
[Footnote 31: The Rat-catcher was supposed to have the art of drawing rats
after him by his whistle, like a sort of Orpheus. ]
[Footnote 32: Walpurgis Night. May-night. Walpurgis is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity. --The Brocken or Blocksberg is
the highest peak of the Harz mountains, which comprise about 1350 square
miles. --Schirke and Elend are two villages in the neighborhood. ]
[Footnote 33: Shelley's translation of this couplet is very fine:
("_O si sic omnia! _")
"The giant-snouted crags, ho! ho!
How they snort and how they blow!
