They Seem Amiable And Goodnatured And By No
Means Minaudieres, As Lady Mary Wortley Montague Has Rather Unjustly
Termed Them; For They Appear To Me To Be The Most Frank, Artless Creatures
I Ever Beheld, And To Have No Sort Of Minauderie Or Coquetterie About
Them.
Beauty is the appanage of the Saxon women, hence the proverb in
rhyme:
Darauf bin ich gegangen nach Sachsen,
Wo die schoenen Maedchen auf den Bauemen wachsen.
In English:
Behold me landed now on Saxon ground,
Where lovely damsels on the trees are found.
A taste for litterature is indeed general throughout the whole nation; and
this city is considered as the Athens of Germany.
DRESDEN, Nov. 8th.
I have been at the theatre and witnessed the representation of a tragedy
called Die Schuld, written by Adolphus Muellner. It is a most interesting
piece, and the novelty of it has made a striking impression on me. It is
written in the eight-footed trochaic metre, similar to that in which the
Spanish tragedies are written. It hinges on a prophecy made by a Gipsey, in
which the person to whom the prophecy is made, in endeavoring to avert it,
hastens its accomplishment. The piece is full of interest and the
versification harmonious. I have been twice at the Italian opera, where I
saw the Gazza Ladra and Il Matrimonio secreto. I came here with the
idea of giving myself up entirely to the study of the German language; but
such is the beauty of the country environing Dresden that, though winter
has commenced I employ the greatest part of the day in long walks.
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