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    his soul to have eaik ^ vcfe Ub ^ hamper and humble h ^* f his fi ** , t&tld Itttoel tkitfttti fRH&V hie aspirations . Oh , th ^ re U no ett ^ to the gdod whWh fef Aitt&L by England in general , and by London in particular But ' wb have no scope , and must fttrfp it all over ,, to come to the&e Sketches of Scotland * the popularity of which ought to perpetuate all the solace of the scenery—a beautiful memory for those who have

    been ; a beautiful hope for those who have to go ; a beautiful fact for the liberal ; a beautiful fancy for the poetical ; and a beautiful substitute for those whose hard lot extinguishes the expectancy of ever realizing the original .

    Scotch scenery is pre-eminently pictorial ; nor are many regions of much more renown half so well adapted to the purposes of the painter and engraver . Its mountains are well defined , and their outline is generally bold and noble . * They have something like a character , and are not the mere masses of mould piled into

    high but unshapely hills that in some places are dignified by that designation . Nor does it matter that there are many in the world much loftier : height is not sublimity for pictorial effect ; at least * not proportionately , nor beyond certain limits . Three or four thousand feet is quite enough for the eye , unless at an immense distance ;

    and then the picture becomes a picture of something else , with a mountain for the remote background . Who can paint Chimborazo or even Mont Blanc ? You can but take bits , not bigger than Ben Nevis ; a portrait is not within possibility . Who ever saw the Himalaya but by instalments , remitted to his senses at intervals . In this case , the aggregate of the parts does not make

    up the whole . Only the younger sons of Anak should sit for their pictures . Goliah of Gath will never go into a miniature . The little Bens are just the true bigness . The same thing may be said of the lakes ; they are never too large , and yet many of them have ample space for all the grandeur of a storm . Tnep

    how rich is Scotland in all those contrasts which constitute the charm of mere landscape ! The deep ravines , with their rich vegetation , into which you tumble from the interminable surface of a barren heath . Passes , with the torrent and its falls in the

    deep abyss below , and their steep mountain walls reaching unto heaven , whieh sometimes seems to close over you above , thrc ^ wjpg from side to side its canopy of cloud . The grand fantasticalqms of its western coa ^ t , the wild forms of which go through ., ^ diversities and gradations till they grow into tt * e mfrvffloi )* « j » d lately symmetry of pillared Steffa . What individual

    shape * of beauty every where abound ; . and what oombinaUyni | NPp there of 49 a , and coast , and ruined castle , bare rock , aml , . ( ib # ltere 4 wood , and sunny no + k > and . tile vast expanse—tm ^ ytt enclosed as you may see it from off the shores of Monren , by an am phithwtricai boiroda / y of tnotintaihr . flfty ttttfet *; tf httiria , from Beirmvis f 6 th ^ QftWbtilffl 1 ^^ ' ^ Ujt 1 '*"\; fZ

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/59/