. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . , A DAY-DREAM AT TINTAGEL. During the whole time I had been wandering in Cornwall, theweather had been most glorious. Now and then, indeed, thesoutherly wind brought up from the sea one of those thick fogsthat wrap up every thing in a moment, and make some of thedreary scenes of that wild country tenfold more dreary; everyobject being enlarged, and yet only dimly descried through it,while the close stifling heat of it is intense,—you seem to
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . , A DAY-DREAM AT TINTAGEL. During the whole time I had been wandering in Cornwall, theweather had been most glorious. Now and then, indeed, thesoutherly wind brought up from the sea one of those thick fogsthat wrap up every thing in a moment, and make some of thedreary scenes of that wild country tenfold more dreary; everyobject being enlarged, and yet only dimly descried through it,while the close stifling heat of it is intense,—you seem to walkabout in a vapour-bath at a high temperature, and your clothes 328 A DAY-DREAM AT TINTAGEL. are as thoroughly saturated with wet as if you had been dippedin the ocean. Now and then this had been the case, but onlyfor a short time; the wind veered to another point, and thewhole was swept away; driving over the plains like smoke, youmight almost suppose there was a city on fire beneath it; androlling along the sides of the bare hills and high craggy coastsin a style that might rejoice the eye of the painter and thepoet. It had been fine, but thi
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