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    doubtless the stream had once poured ; then we marched on towards the amphitheatre , verging a little to the left ; we moved at a rapid pace ; but it seemed to come no nearer after twenty minutes' walk . The distinctness in which it stood , in bold and massive outline from the ruins of the mansion , caused an erroneous estimate as to its distance ; here we turned the base of a hill , rising a little on its slope .

    and descending on the other front , walked a hundred yards further , and stood in the deep shadow of the amphitheatre , gazing upwards through the triple range of arcades—through the vacant space , and out again at the opposite sky;—an ocean of light limpid blue ! I scrambled up the walls , no difficult matter , for at this point the loosened fragments were heaped sufficiently high to enable me to reach the first opening by an easy spring , and by a similar assistance I descended into

    the area , and stood gazing in that indescribable but rapturous confusion of the senses , which , I dare say , many of my readers have experienced whenever overawed by the sudden impressive burst of a spectacle —( the entrance to Tintern Abbey , seventeen years afterwards , was a feeble something like it ) -r-that delicious bewilderment of the thoughts in which you are more disposed to shed tears , than able to adopt any other mode of expressing yourself : the heart heaves

    and swells ready to burst . ; there is an utter inability to concentrate the faculties to any one point of observation or of reflexion ; there is a kind of greedy devouring in the gaze , as if it feared any object , part , or particle should elude its grasp , yet it cannot rest on any one part or particle , smaller or greater object , for a single instant . It is all craving , hungry and dissatisfied wonder . The line , or rather the broad sheet of wall , partly whitened by the moon , and cut into many sharply

    defined shadows , lifting itself up aloft towards the sky , which stooped down to embrace it , and the absence of beginning * or end , no point from which the vision could start in direction of range , while the eye , repeatedly and vainly attempted such a process ; and more than all , the swelling and soaring effect on the imagination that was produced in the alternations of clear , pure , luminously blue sky , and the dark wall

    by the uppermost ranges of arcades : O , the wondrous and delicious beauty of that moonlit heaven when it is thus viewed ! The light is thrown back into vast , vast distance here , and seems there hanging within your tangible grasp , more calmly and gloriously lustrous in either . Reader , reader ! create such a scene in your imagination , and let me leave you to bathe your soul , and swim and sail in the ecstasy which you will feel , if you have a soul !

    It forms no part of the object of this narrative to describe the building , to give you its admeasurement , &c . ; if I had carried lines and scales for the express purpose of ascertaining its dimensions , I should have thought no more of them than if they had been sunk * where fathom-line did never touch the ground . * I will tell vou

    merely that the external wall , the shell of the roofless building , is complete , except towards the south-east , where there is a huge gap from the parapet lessening downwards , and a narrow strip or split continued from it to a good long line , through which a keen and brilliant ray of the moon cut with singularly beautiful effect , as it spread its length out on the area . It allured one to take hold of it , and I

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    Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice . $ 87

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/43/