Carlyle's complete works . imself (what provedwell founded) the tissurance of success for this great day; —and finally that, on the morrow, there occurred an illuminartion and display of fire-works, the like of which is i)robiiblystill a desideratum. For the Bucentaur and Fleet were all hung with coloredlamplets; Head-tjuarters {llaupt-Lager) and Aimy-Lager dittoditto; gleaming upwards with their golden light into thesilver of the Summer Twilight: —and all this is still nothingto the scene there is across the Elbe, on our southeast behold that Palace of the Genii; wings, turrets, ma
Carlyle's complete works . imself (what provedwell founded) the tissurance of success for this great day; —and finally that, on the morrow, there occurred an illuminartion and display of fire-works, the like of which is i)robiiblystill a desideratum. For the Bucentaur and Fleet were all hung with coloredlamplets; Head-tjuarters {llaupt-Lager) and Aimy-Lager dittoditto; gleaming upwards with their golden light into thesilver of the Summer Twilight: —and all this is still nothingto the scene there is across the Elbe, on our southeast behold that Palace of the Genii; wings, turrets, main-body, battlements: it is *a gigantic wooden frame, on whichtwo hundred carpenters have been busy for above six months,ever since Christmas last. Two hundred carpenters ; and howmany painters I cannot say: but they have smeared • six thou-sand yards of linen canvas ; which is now nailed up; hungwith lamps, begirt with fire-works, no end of rocket-serpents,catherine-wheels; with cauuou and field-music, near and far,. 211 or DornLK-MAKKIACi: PIIOJECT. Il^oK VII. June, to corresimnd; — and is now (evening of the 24th June, 1730)shininj; to nan and gods. Pinnacles, turrets, tablatures, tipt with various firt-s and em-blems, all is there : sym))olicTainting, six hundred yardsof it, glowing with innerlight, and legible to the veryowls ! Arnjs now i»il«d use-less ; Tax, with h«r Appurtv-naneos ; Mars nesting (in ) on trophii-s of hiurtdhonorably w(^>n: and there isan Inst^ription, dune in laniivIfts, every letter taller thana man, were you close iij>onIt, Sic fultn manrhit (Thus 8upi)ortc<l it will stand),—theiV Ixing either (Peace) or Jtitmu* (the (Jenii-lalace itself),a« your weak judgment may lead you to int4ritret delicateallusions. Kvery letter bigger than a man: it may be reailalmost at Wittcnl»erg. I should think; fl:uuing as j/Ici writtenon the sky, from the steeple-tops there. 77iim sujtjftrtt^l ittrill stand; and ])iou
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