" A generous nature that lay stupefied and oppressed under the combintition 

 of adverse circumstances, begins to awake and imbibe a charm from prc^pects 

 of beauty and glory. This awaking genius gazes with rapture at the beauteous 

 and elevating scenes of Nature. The beauties of Nature are familiar to it and 

 charm it like a mother's bosom; and the objects, which have the plain inarks 

 of immense power and grandeur, raise in it a still, an inquisitive, a tremljling 

 delight. But this genius often throws, over the objects of its meditations, 

 colours even finer than those of Nature herself, and opens a Paradise that 

 exists only in its own creations." 



Usher. 



