The Waldorf family . deur. Then the camera-obscura of fancy maybe properly brought in use, to diminish then pro-portions, in order that they may come within alimited range of vision, until the mental sight be-comes fitted to receive their full , there are multitudes of minor moral truthswhich would escape the eye of youth, if they werenot caught in the fantastic web of imagination, andthere secured until the youthful eye could becomefamiliar with their form and comeliness. I re-member once standing with several friends on aterrace, which commanded a view of a superblandscape.
The Waldorf family . deur. Then the camera-obscura of fancy maybe properly brought in use, to diminish then pro-portions, in order that they may come within alimited range of vision, until the mental sight be-comes fitted to receive their full , there are multitudes of minor moral truthswhich would escape the eye of youth, if they werenot caught in the fantastic web of imagination, andthere secured until the youthful eye could becomefamiliar with their form and comeliness. I re-member once standing with several friends on aterrace, which commanded a view of a superblandscape. We were all expressing our admirationin the most vivid terms, when I observed a sad ex-pression steal over the countenance of one of theladies. She was very near-sighted, and all thatwe so much extolled, was but a green waste to hereyes. As soon as this was remarked, a gentlemanin the company drew from his pocket a Claude-Lorraine glass. What is that, grandfather ? It is a mirror, which, besides reflecting every 108. object in reduced size, is tinged with the most deli-cate rose-color, or azure, and of course creates, asit were, a beautiful atmosphere for every scenewhich is depicted on its surface. It derives itsname from the great landscape painter, who ex-celled in what is technically called the atmosphereof his pictures. This almost magical glass, washanded to the lady ; she gazed in it as if her verysoul was in her eyes. In a mirror scarcely teninches long, she saw all the beauties, which beforehad been hidden from her view. The blue moun-tains in the distance, the hanging woods on theirsides, the rushing river at their foot, the village be-side the stream, the village girls at the spring, thechildren at play on the green, all was called up inlife-like beauty before her ; and for the first time,a widely extended view of natures charms wasbrought within her limited range of eyesight. Oh! how delightful it must have been, ex-claimed Edith. What that Claude-Lorraine glass wa
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