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96 SVENSK DIKTNING
to have fitted her type. Be this as it may, her beauty had
attracted many highborn admirers before she became the
mistress of the Elector of Saxony (August II.), cousin of
Charles XII.
29. med- och motgång, elliptie compound.
43. dvärgalåten, the howling of the dwarfs, i. e., the
invidious criticism of King Charles by men of small caliber
or ignoble design. Even the famous Histoire de Charles
XII, by Voltaire, is probably not exempt from this
classification, much as Tegnér admired all champions of
humanism and tolerance.
SÅNGEN.
43. Tidens botten (elliptie figure), the bottom of the
stream of time, the tide of the ages.
58. The starry vault of heaven is represented as the
mausoleum of the heroic dead.
MJÄLTSJUKAN.
13. Note the three imperfect rhymes plötsligt, ödsligt,
höstligt, the latter bordering on the impermissible.
17. Vad vill mig, etc., what would reality have of me,
i. e., what care I for the dead, mute mass of material things?
55. skolen, dialect form.
VID SVENSKA AKADEMIENS FEMTIÅRA MINNESHÖGTID.
2. The regular adverbial form is äntligt or äntligen.
13. en levande gustaviad i brons, a striking metaphor,
strengthened by the contradiction in the attributives
levande and i brons. The poet contemplates the statue of
Gustavus III. as a plastic presentment of the king as the
incarnation of the spirit of the Gustavian age, the Era of
Illumination as regards Sweden. Brons being sounded also
as brångs, the rhyme here calls for that pronunciation.
20. Irregular order, the proper sequence being, hur kär
den är mig.
36. A paraphrase of Wallin’s lines in his ode at the
unveiling of the monument to Gustavus III. at Stockholm in
1808:
— — — nationen,
som sorglöst spridde sig kring tronen,
trygg vid den tanken, att du fanns.
47. Karl von Linné (Linn&eus), the renowned scientist.
The importance of his work can scarcely be overrated. It
has been said that "he found biology a chaos; he left it a
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