Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—VAKNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEARS 1837-.'57 271Frederick; to see the Eiesengebirge country andthe actual fields of Frederick's ten or twelve grandbattles : this would be a real and great gain to me.Hohenfriedberg, Soor, Leuthen, I could walk thesescenes as truly notable ones on this Earth's surface ;footsteps of a most brilliant, valiant and invinciblehuman soul which had gone before me thro' thecountries and left indelible trace of himself there.Then at Berlin, one could see atleast immensities ofportraits, Chodowieski Engravings &c. &c. which arequite wanting in this country ; as well as all mannerof books to be read or to be collected and carriedhome for reading ;—not to mention oral inquiries andcommunications, or the very sight of friends whomight otherwise remain always invisible to me ! Inshort, I think it not unlikely that we may actuallycome, my Wife and I, this very summer ; and try thebusiness a little ; for there are Homburg or otherwatering places in the game too, and we really bothof us need a little change of scene, after so manyyears of this Babel. The drawbacks are sad incapacity,especially on my part, for sleeping, fordigesting, for porting the conditions of travel,which are sport to most people, and alas are death topoor us ! However, if the motive energy were sufficientlygreat ? We can both of us speak, or couldsoon learn to speak, a kind of Deutsch-Kauderwalsch,which might be intelligible to the quick-eared ; andfor me, I have a certain readitiess in bad French as