. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . THE PIONEER. MARCH, 1843 A VISION, A few evenings since, while sitting in deepreflection over a pamphlet that contains a newdefinition of life, and seeming to catch a gleamof light upon that mysterious death-in life whichso extensively characterizes modern genius,suddenly I found myself taken off my feet,and realized before my eyes at once all not only the real personages of history,but the fictitious beings of poetry and romance— equally palpable — were present, and all thecreations of the masters of art. The picturesof which Pausani
. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . THE PIONEER. MARCH, 1843 A VISION, A few evenings since, while sitting in deepreflection over a pamphlet that contains a newdefinition of life, and seeming to catch a gleamof light upon that mysterious death-in life whichso extensively characterizes modern genius,suddenly I found myself taken off my feet,and realized before my eyes at once all not only the real personages of history,but the fictitious beings of poetry and romance— equally palpable — were present, and all thecreations of the masters of art. The picturesof which Pausanius gives an account, and whichI supposed lost long ago, were before me, notonly in all their original coloring, but even aliveas they were not on the canvass. The lost stat-uary reappeared ; and temples, whose decayedremnants alone have been seen since the periodof recorded history, were fresh to my sense asthe Gothic churches of the middle ages, and themixed architecture of the present. What was more remarkable still, the airseemed pervaded
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