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set off each other in the happiest manner ; 

 and I have felt quite impatient to examine 

 all these beauties by day-light : 



" At length the morn, and cold indifference came." 



The charm which held them together, and 

 made them act so powerfully as a whole, 

 had vanished. 



It may, perhaps, be said, that the ima- 

 gination from a few imperfect hints, often 

 forms beauties which have no existence, 

 and that indifference may naturally arise* 

 from, those phantoms not being realized. 

 I am far from denying the power of par- 

 tial concealment and obscurity on the ima- 

 gination ; but in these cases, the set of 

 objects when seen by twilight, is beautiful 

 as a picture, and would, appear highly so, 

 if exactly represented on the canvass ; but 

 in full day -light, the sun, as it were, de- 

 compounds what had been so happily 

 mixed together, and separates a striking 

 whole, into detached unimpressive parts. 



Nothing, I believe, would be of more 

 service in forming a taste for general effect, 



