famous _Asiatischen Banise_: 'The suns of her eyes played with
lightnings; her curly hair, like waves round her head, was somewhat
darker than white; her cheeks were a pleasant Paradise where rose and
lily bloomed together in beauty--yea, love itself seemed to pasture
there.' Elsewhere too this writer, so highly esteemed by the second
Silesian school of poets, indulged in showy description and inflated
rhetoric. Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel tried more
elaborate descriptions of scenery; so that Chovelius says:

The Duke's German character shews pleasantly in his delight in
Nature. The story often takes one into woods and fields; already
griefs and cares were carried to the running brook and mossy
stone, and happy lovers listened to the nightingale.

His language is barely intelligible, but there is a pleasant breadth
about his drawing--for example, of the king's meadow and the grotto
in _Aramena_:

Very cold crystal streams flowed through the fields and ran
softly over the stony ground, making a pleasant murmur. Whilst
the ear was thus contented, a distant landscape delighted the
eye. No more delightful place, possessing all this at once, could
have been found, etc.

Looking through the numerous air-holes, the eye lost itself in a
deep valley, surrounded by nothing but mountains, where the
shepherds tended their flocks, and one heard their flutes
multiplied by the echo in the most delightful way.

Mawkish shepherd play is mixed here with such verses as (Rahel):