. English literature; an illustrated record . T ^ p[t. STEVENSON 365 of which it discourses ? where hearts beat high in April, and death strikes, and hills totterin the earthquake, and there is a glamour over all the objects of sight, and a thrill in allnoises for the ear, and Romance herself has made her dwelling among men ? So we comeback to the old myth, and hear the goat-footed piper making the music which is itself thecharm and terror of things ; and when a glen in\ites our visiting footsteps, fancy that Panleads us thither with a gracious tremolo ; or when our hearts quail at the th
. English literature; an illustrated record . T ^ p[t. STEVENSON 365 of which it discourses ? where hearts beat high in April, and death strikes, and hills totterin the earthquake, and there is a glamour over all the objects of sight, and a thrill in allnoises for the ear, and Romance herself has made her dwelling among men ? So we comeback to the old myth, and hear the goat-footed piper making the music which is itself thecharm and terror of things ; and when a glen in\ites our visiting footsteps, fancy that Panleads us thither with a gracious tremolo ; or when our hearts quail at the thunder of thecataract, tell ourselves that he has stamped his hoof in the nigh thicket. We are, however, in danger of entangling our impressions with oneanother if we pursue too low down the threads which we have attemptedto hold through more than five centuries from Langland and Chaucer toHuxley and Stevenson. We must drop them here, leaving them loose, forthey are parts of a living organism, and we cannot presume to say in whatdirection their natural gro
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