[31] Abstract unterworfen. Hegel apparently means abstract as detached from the natural medium of language—becoming thereby the abstract symbol of idea exclusively.
[32] As in musical art.
[33] Seelen-tonen, i.e., the wave and flow of the emotional life itself.
[34] In das Spielen. Hegel repeats his use of the expression above, beiher Spielen, lit., the playing with not as a toy but as something serious.
[35] I suppose this is the meaning here of Sharfsinn, but "subtlety" may be included.
[36] Indifferent, that is, as asserting the creative freedom of the poet, he can select his own rhymes as he wills. Hegel, however, seems rather to miss the essential spontaneity of really good blank verse.
[37] So I translate die innere Subjectivität, but it may refer perhaps to the entire creative personality.
[38] That is, I presume, their relation to romantic art.
[39] That is, the primary feature changed is that of the validity of natural quantity.
[40] Dem Äusseren Daseyn. That is, of language.