A tour through the Pyrenees . boredom ; theimagination deflowers the landscape in advance. Itworks and builds according to its. own pleasure ;then when you reach your goal all must be over-turned ; that spoils your disposition ; the mindkeeps its bent, and the beauty it has fancied pre-judices that which it sees; it fails to understand Chap. IV. LANDSCAPES. 139 tliis, because it is already taken up with suffered a most orrievous disenchantment when Isaw the sea for the first time : it was a morning-in autumn ; flecks of purphsh cloud dappled thesky ; a gentle breeze covered the sea
A tour through the Pyrenees . boredom ; theimagination deflowers the landscape in advance. Itworks and builds according to its. own pleasure ;then when you reach your goal all must be over-turned ; that spoils your disposition ; the mindkeeps its bent, and the beauty it has fancied pre-judices that which it sees; it fails to understand Chap. IV. LANDSCAPES. 139 tliis, because it is already taken up with suffered a most orrievous disenchantment when Isaw the sea for the first time : it was a morning-in autumn ; flecks of purphsh cloud dappled thesky ; a gentle breeze covered the sea with littleuniform waves. I seemed to see one of those lonofstretches of beet-root that are found in the envi-rons of Paris, intersected by patches of green cab-bages and bands of russet barley. The distantsails looked like the winQ;s of homeward-boundpigeons. The view seemed to me confined ; theartists, in their pictures, had represented the sea asgreater. It was three days before I could get backthe sensation of 140 THE VALLE Y OF OSS A U. Book II. 11. The course of the Valentin is nothincr but along fall between multitudes of rocks. All alongthe promenade Eynard, for half a league, youmay hear it rumbling under your feet. At thebridee of Discoo, its standinQ^-crround fails it alto-
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