234; Nicolai, _Beschreibung von Berlin,_ i.

169.] This is Seyfarth's account, still capable of confirmation by travelling readers of a musical turn.

I have seen Operas with much more brilliancy of gas and gilding; but none nearly so convenient to the human mind and sense; or where the audience (not now a gratis one) attended to the music in so meritorious a way.
"Perhaps it will attract moneyed strangers to frequent our Capital ?"--some guess, that was Friedrich's thought.

"At all events, it is a handsome piece of equipage, for a musical King and People; not to be neglected in the circumstances.

Thalia, in general,--let us not neglect Thalia, in such a dearth of worshipable objects." Nor did he neglect Thalia.