- ED.
[121] Boileau, Satires, XI, v. 117.
[122] The drama, Der Wold bei Hermannstadt, is the work of Johanna
Fraenul von Weissenthurn (1773-1847), a celebrated Viennese actress
and authoress. An opera was written on the same text by W. Westmeyer,
- ED.
[123] Because I am an Englishman - You are an Englishman? you are certainly
a North-German; you speak very correct German. - Gentlemen, I tell you
I am an Englishman; many English study and speak the German language
and if you had held a long conversation with me, you would soon have
perceived from my faults in speaking, that I am not a German. - But you
have answered our questions so correctly. - Why not, the same questions
have been put to me so often that I have all the necessary answers by
heart like a catechism.
[124] Where is my father?
[125] "You wish to know where your father is? He is under arrest; people
were well disposed to him; but he is placed under arrest, because he
was unruly, and if you are unruly you will be placed under arrest
likewise."
CHAPTER XVII
SEPTEMBER 1818-MARCH 1819
The splendid city of Prague - The German expression, "To give the
basket" - Journey from Prague to Dresden - Journey from Dresden to Berlin - A
description of Berlin - The Prussian Army - Theatricals - Peasants talk about
Napoleon - Prussians and French should be allies - Absurd policy of the
English Tories - Journey from Berlin to Dresden - A description of
Dresden - The battle of Dresden in 1813 - Clubs at Dresden - Theatricals -
German beds - Saxon scholars - The picture gallery - Tobacco an ally of
Legitimacy - Saxon women - Meissen - Unjust policy of Europe towards the King
of Saxony.
![After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye
- - ED.
[119] See reference to Eustace p. 131.
[120] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, XXVIII, 38, 7. - ED.
[121] Boileau, Satires, XI - Page 502](../images/travel.jpg)
