[192] This is Jean Paul's own image.--TR.
[193] That is, of course, some lights of hope.--TR.
[194] A German or Suabian dance.--TR.
[195] His Moral Treatises, Vol. II. p. 96.
[196] The Germans call the dash the _stroke of thought_. Here it
implies an emphatic pause, as much as to say, "What do you think
is coming?"--TR.
[197] At the Prince's marriage.
[198] With the Egyptians the enchanters were only learned men;
with him the learned women were enchantresses.
[199] _Mémoires secrets sur les Règnes de Louis XIV._, etc. Par
Duclos. Tom. I.
[200] It is well known that a cut is made in a fowl left whole as
a sign that it has been upon the Prince's table, so that it may
not be set on again, but otherwise enjoyed.
[201] In German, _Schutz- und Stich-blatt_,--literally, a plate
to defend the hand in parrying and thrusting,--_Blatt_, meaning
_leaf_ (of paper) also, conveys a _pun_ not easily
translated.--TR.
[202] The blind-passenger in the German stage-coach corresponds
to our _dead-head_ in stage or steamboat.--TR.
[203] See Klockenbring's collected Essays.
[204] (In German, _Spring-wurzel_.) The juice of some plant
(perhaps Devil's-milk) highly and quickly corrosive.--TR.
[205] News by hand.--TR.
[206] The King had to _damer_, or make a dame of an unmarried
maiden of rank, before she could go to Versailles to court.
[207] Not so miserable perhaps as a French mangling the
translator remembers to have seen.--TR.
[208] He refers to the letter he had left on Liana's table, and
which she had shown to her mother.--TR.
[209] _Fist_ in the original.--TR.
[210] I.e. as in a wine-press.--TR.
[211] Alluding to the horned hat once worn by graduated printers'
apprentices.--TR.
[212] Beseke discovered it. See "On the Elemental Fire," by him,
1786.
[213] Venus with beautiful thighs.--TR.
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