[645]. Schriften, ed. Roth, 8 vols. in 9: Berlin, 1821-42. The second part of the eighth volume is wholly occupied by one of the best indices that I know in any German book—a very special blessing in the case of a writer like Hamann.
[646]. i. 509.
[647]. ii. 376-413.
[648]. iii. 81.
[649]. Who is mentioned in the same passage for his discourse on Fables.
[650]. He speaks, for instance (ii. 437, saying, of course, that he will not speak), of “our æsthetic” as “Bohemian glass”; of the “falsity of its subtlety,” &c.
[651]. He describes himself in a letter to Reichardt, of June 1777 (v. 248), as spending the livelong day in reading “the Greek Testament, some classic, or Shakespeare.” Fifteen years earlier, in one of the maddest-looking of his tract-groups (Essais à Mosaïque, vol. ii.), written in French and giving itself out as written in England, “at Bedlam,” “Tyburn Road,” &c., he had pronounced Falstaff “unique”: and his quotations from Hamlet, at a time when the future author of Wilhelm Meister was scarcely breeched, are frequent.
[652]. 9 vols.: Göttingen, 1844-47.
[653]. v. 93.
[654]. v. 331.