And make those flights upon the banks of Thames,
That so did take Eliza and our James!]
[Footnote 20: This is perhaps not uncommon still in some countries.
The Venetian Director Medebach, for whose company many of Goldoni's
Comedies were composed, claimed an exclusive right to them.—TRANS.]
[Footnote 21: Twelfth Night, or What You Will—Act iii., scene 2.]
[Footnote 22: As You Like It.]
[Footnote 23: In one of the commendatory poems in the first folio edition:
And on the stage at half sword parley were
Brutus and Cassius.]
[Footnote 24: In the first volume of Charakteristiken und Kritiken, published by my brother and myself.]
[Footnote 25: A contemporary of the poet, the author of the already-noticed poem, (subscribed I.M.S.), tenderly felt this when he said:
Yet so to temper passion that our ears
Take pleasure in their pain, and eyes in tears
Both smile and weep.]
[Footnote 26: In Hamlet's directions to the players. Act iii., scene 2.]