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manner ; and I have felt quite impatient to
cxamine all thefe beauties by day-light:
tc At length the morn, and cold indifFerence came. ,,‘
The charm which held them together, and
made them a£t fo powerfully as a whole,
was gone.
It may, perhaps, be faid, that the imagi-
nation, from a few imperfe£t hints, may
form beauties which have no exiftence,
and that indifference may naturally arife,
from thofe phantoms not being realized.
I am far from denying the power of par-
tial concealment and obfcurity on the ima-
gination; but in thefe cafes, the fame fet
of obje&s, when feen by twilight, is often
beautiful as a pi&ure, and would appear
highly fo, if exadtly reprefented on the can-
vafs; but in full day-light, the fun, as it
were, decompounds what had been fo
happily mixed together, and feparates a
M a ftriking
manner ; and I have felt quite impatient to
cxamine all thefe beauties by day-light:
tc At length the morn, and cold indifFerence came. ,,‘
The charm which held them together, and
made them a£t fo powerfully as a whole,
was gone.
It may, perhaps, be faid, that the imagi-
nation, from a few imperfe£t hints, may
form beauties which have no exiftence,
and that indifference may naturally arife,
from thofe phantoms not being realized.
I am far from denying the power of par-
tial concealment and obfcurity on the ima-
gination; but in thefe cafes, the fame fet
of obje&s, when feen by twilight, is often
beautiful as a pi&ure, and would appear
highly fo, if exadtly reprefented on the can-
vafs; but in full day-light, the fun, as it
were, decompounds what had been fo
happily mixed together, and feparates a
M a ftriking