Faithful to England for a time—A summer passed at
Ballenstedt—The castle of Blankenburg, the billiard-room
and chapel—The situation of Ballenstedt: forest, hills, and
lakes—Its vicinity to the Affenthaler valley—Reflections on
paper—I am my own posterity—My writings since my eightieth
year have delivered my message—The human comedy—I insinuate
that I am the only English epigrammatist, _par excellence_—The
general incapacity of appreciation—Short poems have often a
biographic flavour—Further useless reflections—The almost
imperceptible difference between man and man 280