Und Freiheit und Ergoetzen Erheitern seinen Blick....
Ihm prangt die fette Weide Und die betante Flur;
Ihm gruenet Lust und Freude Ihm malet die Natur.']
[Footnote 3: _Litteratur geschichte_.]
[Footnote 4: _Saemtliche poetische Werke_, J.P. Uz. Leipzig, 1786.]
[Footnote 5: _Saemtliche Werke_. Berlin, 1803.]
[Footnote 6: _Saemtliche Werke_, J.G. Jacobi, vol. viii. Zurich,
1882.]
[Footnote 7: He said of his garden at Freiburg, which was laid out in
terraces on a slope, that all that Flora and Pomona could offer was
gathered there. It had a special Poet's Corner on a hillock under a
poplar, where a moss-covered seat was laid for him upon some
limestone rock-work; white and yellow jasmine grew round, and laurels
and myrtles hung down over his head. Here he would rest when he
walked in the sun; on his left was a mossy Ara, a little artificial
stone altar on which he laid his book, and from here he could gaze
across the visible bit of the distant Rhine to the Vosges, and give
himself up undisturbed to his thoughts.]
[Footnote 8: Gessners _Schriften_. Zurich, 1770.]
[Footnote 9: Spalding, _Die Bestimmung des Menschen_. Leipzig, 1768.]
[Footnote 10: Klopstock's _Briefe_. Brunswick, 1867.]
[Footnote 11: Comp. _Odes_, 'Die Kunst Tialfs' and 'Winterfreuden.']
[Footnote 12: _Briefe_.]
[Footnote 13: Julian Schmidt.]
[Footnote 14: Comp. his letters from Switzerland, which contain
nothing particular about the scenery, although he crossed the Lake of
Zurich, and 'a wicked mountain' to the Lake of Zug and Lucerne.]
[Footnote 15: Claudius, who, at a time when the lyric both of poetry
and music was lost in Germany in conventional tea and coffee songs,
was the first to rediscover the direct expression of feeling--that
is, Nature feeling. (Storm's _Hausbuch_.)]
CHAPTER XI
[Footnote 1: I have obtained much information and suggestion from
'_Ueber die geographische Kenntnis der Alpen im Mittelalter_,' and
'_Ueber die Alpine Reiselitteratur in fruherer Zeit_,' in _Allgem.
Zeitung_. Jan. 11, 1885, and Sept. 1885, respectively.]
[Footnote 2: _Evagatorium 3, Bibliothek d. litterar. Vereins_.
Stuttgart, 1849.]
[Footnote 3: _Bibliothek des litterar. Vereins_. Stuttgart, 1886.]
[Footnote 4: _Descriptio Larii lacus_. Milan, 1558.]
[Footnote 5: _Itinerarium Basil_. 1624.]
[Footnote 6: Osenbrueggen, _Wanderungen in der Schweiz_, 1867;
_Entwickelungsgeschichte des Schweizreisens_; Friedlaender, _Ueber di
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