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Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox beauty is not approaching its last quarter The new Vale of Teaunt waste in Thule; human souls may find thes wearing a so The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or awith themankind And ultimately, to the commonest tourist, spots like Iceland ardens of South Europe are to hi and Baden be passed unheeded as he hastens froen

Theascetic could feel that he had a natural right to wander on Egdon--he was keeping within the line of legitience when he laid himself open to influences such as these Colours and beauties so far subdued were, at least, the birthright of all Only in suaiety Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during winter darkness, tedon was aroused to reciprocity; for the storm was its lover, and the wind its friend Then it becae phantoinal of those wild regions of obscurity which are vaguely felt to be coht and disaster, and are never thought of after the dream till revived by scenes like this

It was at present a place perfectly accordant with ly; neither cohted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthylived apart, solitude seeesting tragical possibilities

This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy, furzy, briary wilderness--"Bruaria" Then follows the length and breadth in leagues; and, though some uncertainty exists as to the exact extent of this ancient lineal don down to the present day has but little di heath-turf--occurs in charters relating to the district "Overgroith heth and mosse," says Leland of the same dark sweep of country