book xi
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JOHANN L. UHLAND. 1787-1862.
Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,-- Take, I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me.
_The Passage. Edinburgh Review, October, 1832._
VON MÜNCH BELLINGHAUSEN. 1806-1871.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.[806-3]
_Ingomar the Barbarian._[806-4] _Act ii._
FOOTNOTES:
[806-3] See Pope, page 340.
Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag.
[806-4] Translated by Maria Lovell.
MISCELLANEOUS TRANSLATIONS.
Absolutism tempered by assassination.[807-1]
A Cadmean victory.[807-2]
After us the deluge.[807-3]
All is lost save honour.[807-4]
Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.[807-5]
Architecture is frozen music.[807-6]
Beginning of the end.[808-1]
Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness.[808-2]
Dead on the field of honour.[808-3]
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.[808-4]
Extremes meet.[808-5]
Hell is full of good intentions.[808-6]
History repeats itself.[808-7]
I am here: I shall remain here.[808-8]
I am the state.[808-9]
It is magnificent, but it is not war.[808-10]
Leave no stone unturned.[809-1]
Let it be. Let it pass.[809-2]
Medicine for the soul.[809-3]
Nothing is changed in France; there is only one Frenchman more.[809-4]
Order reigns in Warsaw.[809-5]
Ossa on Pelion.[809-6]
Scylla and Charybdis.[810-1]
Sinews of war.[810-2]
Talk of nothing but business, and despatch that business quickly.[810-3]
The empire is peace.[810-4]
The guard dies, but never surrenders.[810-5]
The king reigns, but does not govern.[810-6]
The style is the man himself.[811-1]
"There is no other royal path which leads to geometry," said Euclid to Ptolemy I.[811-2]
There is nothing new except what is forgotten.[811-3]
They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.[811-4]
We are dancing on a volcano.[811-5]
Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.[811-6]
God is on the side of the strongest battalions.[811-7]
Terrible he rode alone, With his Yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade.
_The Death Feud. An Arab War-song._[811-8]
FOOTNOTES:
[807-1] Count Münster, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, discovered that Russian civilization is "merely artificial," and first published to Europe the short description of the Russian Constitution,--that it is "absolutism tempered by assassination."
[807-2] A Greek proverb. A Cadmean victory was one in which the victors suffered as much as their enemies.
Symmisgontôn de tê naumachiê, Kadmeiê tis nikê toisi Phôkaieusi egeneto.--HERODOTUS: _i. 166._
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
EURIPIDES: _Fragment 656. Protesilaus._
[807-3] On the authority of Madame de Hausset ("Mémoires," p. 19), this phrase is ascribed to Madame de Pompadour. Larouse ("Fleurs Historiques") attributes it to Louis XV.
[807-4] It was from the imperial camp near Pavia that Francis I., before leaving for Pizzighettone, wrote to his mother the memorable letter which, thanks to tradition, has become altered to the form of this sublime laconism: "Madame, tout est perdu fors l'honneur."
The true expression is, "Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses ne m'est demeuré que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauvé."--MARTIN: _Histoire de France, tome viii._
The correction of this expression was first made by Sismondi, vol. xvi. pp. 241, 242. The letter itself is printed entire in Dulaure's "Histoire de Paris": "Pour vous avertir comment se porte le ressort de mon infortune, de toutes choses ne m'est demeuré que l'honneur et la vie,--qui est sauvé."
[807-5] Inserit se tantis viris mulier alienigeni sanguinis: quæ a Philippo rege temulento immerenter damnata, Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium.--VALERIUS MAXIMUS: _Lib. vi. c. 2._
[807-6] Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. . . . If architecture in general is frozen music.--SCHELLING: _Philosophie der Kunst, pp. 576, 593._
La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée.--MADAME DE STAËL: _Corinne,