[41] Entfaltung. Such an explication of rhythmical euphony as the previous system discloses.
[42] Geistes. All that pertains to conscious life.
[43] Lit., a blunt or coarse sound, ein plumpes Klingen.
[44] Tonen implies sound no less than accent. I have rendered it in various ways.
[45] Von Seiten des Geistes. Perhaps rather "as aspects of the poet's intelligence"—that is, with reference to the self-assertion above explained.
[46] More nearly related to the natural medium of language.
[47] Die Verslehre der Isländer v. Rask, verd. von Mohnike, Berlin, 1830, pp. 14-17.
[48]Betonte, see above note on Tonen.
[49] Stämme, the stem of verbs, rather than the root of substantives, which would be more correctly stammwort.
[50] "Do we moderns face broad reaches such as these, as did the ancients?" Falten, folds, expatiation of subject-matter. I presume, though I do not recall the context, that the allusion is mainly to elegiacs.