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view) when the sun breaks out in gleams, 

 there is something that delights and sur- 

 prises, in seeing an object before only vi- 

 sible, lighted up in splendour, and then 

 gradually sinking into shade: but a whit- 

 ened object is already lighted up; it re- 

 mains so when every thing has retired into 

 obscurity; it still forces itself into notice, 

 still impudently stares you in the face. 



A cottage of a quiet colour half con- 

 cealed among trees, with its bit of garden, 

 its pales and orchard, is one of the most 

 tranquil and soothing of all rural objects; 

 when the sun strikes upon it, a number 

 of lively picturesque circumstances are 

 brought into view, and it becomes one of 

 the most chearful: but if cleared round, 

 and whitened, its modest retired character 

 is gone, and is succeeded by a perpetual 

 glare. 



difference; a passing note, however false, is quickly over; 

 but a glaring object, is like an eternal holding note held 

 firmly out of tune, and which, in that case well deserves 

 the name an unmusical friend once gave to holding notes 

 in general ; " I don't know what you call them," said he, 

 " I mean one of those long noises." ( 



