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"Why," replied Madame, "you have many great poets, but when they write for the stage they lose themselves entirely; your Valter Scote's play of Robe Roi is very inferior to his novel of the same name." "It is a great pity," said I, "that Byron did not turn his Childe Harold into a tragedy it has so much energy action variety!"
Czernavoda is Sclavic, and means black water; in Turkish, kara su; even as Tzernebock means black god; and Belgrade, or Belograd, means the white town; even as Bielebock, or Bielebog, means the white god. Oh! he is one great ignorant, that Valter. He is going, they say, to write one history about Napoleon. I do hope that in his history he will couple his Thor and Tzernebock together.
"Well," said I, "Thur or Thor was certainly a god of the heathen Saxons." "True," said the Hungarian; "but why couple him with Tzernebock? Tzernebock was a word which your Valter had picked up somewhere without knowing the meaning. Tzernebock was no god of the Saxons, but one of the gods of the Sclaves, on the southern side of the Baltic.
"Nonsense!" exclaimed the little man, growing angry. "I tell you this is valuable property. D'ye know who I am?" "Or ye might climb into the boot along vith it, sir " "Do you know who I am?" "All aboard all aboard for London!" roared the guard, coming up at the instant. "Valter!" cried Mottle-face. "Ay, ay, Joe?" "Gentleman's walise for the boot, Valter; and sharp's the vord!"
"Why," replied Madame, "you have many great poets, but when they write for the stage they lose themselves entirely; your Valter Scote's play of Robe Roi is very inferior to his novel of the same name." "It is a great pity," said I, "that Byron did not turn his Childe Harold into a tragedy it has so much energy action variety!"
I know little of them, but enough to say, that one horse-load of nonsense has been written about them; there is one Valter Scott " "Mind what you say about him," said I; "he is our grand authority in matters of philology and history."
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