28-7. {=das Loch=}, colloq. for {Stube} or {Studierzimmer}; comp. Goethe’s “Faust,” verse 399: {„Verfluchtes dumpfes Mauer_loch_ ...“} 28-8. {=sein Leben=} (adverbial accusative expressing duration of time) = {sein Leben lang} or {sein ganzes Leben lang}. 28-9. {=davon´=}, _of it_, i.e. of Italian life and scenery. 28-10. “=Bea´tus ille!=” _“Happy he!”_ or _“Fortunate that man!”_ the much quoted beginning of the second epode of Horace: Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis ... 28-11. The first stanza of Goethe’s ballad “Mignon” from the third book of the novel {„Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,“} in which Mignon, a young Italian girl who has been abducted from home and taken to Germany, gives vent to her longing for Italian skies: Know’st thou the land where citron-apples bloom, And oranges like gold in leafy gloom, A gentle wind from deep-blue heaven blows, The myrtle thick, and high the laurel grows? Know’st thou it then? ’Tis there! ’tis there, O, my true lov’d one, thou with me must go! (_Thomas Carlyle_). 28-12. {=wohl=} (adv. idiom, not easy to render), _perhaps_ or _say!_ or _then_ (explet.). 28-13. {=alles=} (idiomatic use of neut. sing. for masc. and fem. pl.) = {alle}. =Page 29.=--29-1. {=vor=} (of time), _ago_. 29-2. {=da´mit=} (emphat. = {hiermit}), i.e. {mit diesen Worten}. 29-3. {=die Ces´tiuspyramide=}, _the Pyramid of Cestius_ in Rome, a huge monument, once the last resting-place of Caius Cestius, a Roman prætor and tribune of the time of Emperor Augustus. Close to this pyramid is _the Protestant Cemetery_, where _tall cypresses_ rise above the graves of numerous English, American, German, and other visitors. Prominent among those resting there are: Shelley, the English poet (died 1822), whose heart only was buried there; the tombstone of the English poet Keats (died 1821) bears the melancholy inscription: _“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”_ There is also the grave of August Goethe (died 1830), the only son of the poet. 29-4. {=es=} (indef., “something”), _a thought_. 29-5. {=es=} (indef.) {=kämpfte in ihm=}, trans. perhaps: _there was a struggling of feelings in his heart_. 29-6. The form {=im Jahre 18..=} may be read: {„achtzehn hundert und so und so.“} 29-7. {=doch=} (adverb. idiom), here: _I hope_ or _let me hope_. =Page 30.=--30-1. {=uns=}, reciproc. pron. = ? 30-2. The beginning of one of the most exquisite and popular treasures of German lyric poetry, by the Austrian poet Ernst von Feuchtersleben (1806-1849) with music by Mendelssohn-Bartholdi. The second and third stanzas run thus: 2. {So dir geschenkt ein Knösplein was, So thu es in ein Wasserglas; Doch wisse: Blüht morgen dir ein Röslein auf, Es welkt wohl schon die Nacht darauf, Das wisse!} 3.