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her victim, before she rends it, there is a terrible 

 majesty in her air ; and when all this is among the 

 grandeur of mountain scenery, while the spectator is 

 elevated above the whole ; when the dark eminence 

 and the dusky eagle are projected against a mountain 

 glen, with its bright stream, its green bosom, its scat- 

 tered trees, its abrupt hills, and its wild and rocky 

 precipices, here veiled with mist, and there glancing in 

 the sun, it is a scene which fails not to make a vivid 

 and a lasting impression. 



