[138] _Tempestiarii_, or Storm-makers, was a name given, in the
Middle Ages, to the master-wizards who could conjure up foul
weather. Weather-prayers were used in the churches against them,
and other wizard-masters called in to counteract the former.
[139] The Polish dancer always carries a rod under the fur-dress,
wherewith his partner is excused by a blow or two, when she makes
a misstep.--_Upper Siles. Monthly Mag._, July, 1788.
[140] Dread of spirits.
[141] The German for this is _sauer-stoff_ (sour-stuff).--TR.
[142] A noted review in Richter's day, published at Erlangen near
Nuremberg.--TR.
[143] Thus did the turnkeys name their prisoners.
[144] Alexand. ab Al., v. 4.
[145] To distinguish himself from the eagle of the Emperor, who
holds something in both claws.
[146] Bouverot was a Catholic.
[147] He meant one with the poor Lector.
[148] Literally, "twilight-bird."--TR.
[149] To _get the basket_ means a refusal.--TR.
[150] I do not mean (as perhaps may appear from the _selling_)
Pitt the Minister, but Pitt the Diamond, which the father of the
present Pitt traded away to the Duke Regent of France, and for
whose splinters he got twelve thousand ducats into the bargain.
[151] I sell only my landscapes, and throw in the figures.
[152] _Stand_, in German, has the double meaning of an _estate_
and a _stand_.--TR.
[153] Plaut. Bacch., Act 4, Scen. 7, 4, 16, 17.
[154] Seventh Part of the new Collection of Travels.
[155] I speak more particularly of the daughters, because they
are the most frequent and greatest victims; the sons are
bloodless mass-offerings.
[156] Pliny, Nat. Hist., VIII. 16.
[157] And this is quite probable. Dr. Edward Hill reckoned that
in England eight thousand die annually of unhappy love,--of
broken hearts, as the Englishwomen touchingly express it. Beddoes
shows that vegetable food--and of this such victims are
particularly fond--fosters consumption, and that females incline
to this. Besides, the times of longing, which of itself, even
without disappointment, as homesickness shows, is a poisonous
revolving leaden ball, occur in youth, when the seed of pectoral
maladies most easily springs up. O many married ones fall, under
misconstructions, victims to the death-angel, into whose hand
they had, previously to marriage, put the sword they themselves
had sharpened!
[158] Forster's Views, Vol. I.
[159] A line (French) is one twelfth of an inch.--TR.
[160] Because he had just said he did not know her.--TR.
[161] Weigel. in Jena, invented the inverted bridge (_pons
heteroclitus_), a stairway on which a person seems to descend, by
going up.--_Bush's Handbook of Inventions_, Vol. VII.
[162] It had the name from its height and its being so often
struck with lightning.