[346] Letter of 12th September 1852, in Briefe an Röckel, p. 10.
[347] See Wagner's further account of this article in Mein Leben, p. 545.
[348] This and other statements as to the genesis of opera are not historically correct.
[349] The most admired of libretto writers of the eighteenth century.
[350] The latest edition of the Gesammelte Schriften (which contains more than one regrettable error), has "auf natürlichem, künstlichem Boden gewachsen," instead of unnatürlichem as in the earlier editions. See G.S., iv. 15.
[351] I borrow Mr. Edwin Evans's alliterative rendering of these three lines,—"Life's delight is love"; "True love doth lighten loss"; "For 'tis from woe she weaves her wonders." See his translation of Opera and Drama, ii. 520 ff.
[352] I.e., in modern phrase, the "leading-motives."
[353] G.S., iii. 267.
[354] G.S., iii. 269.
[355] G.S., iv. 65, 66.