A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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lowed them ! my heart gave the preference to no particular object, but it was prepared for that tenderness and love which have since caused me so much pain and taught me such real happiness. My imagination idle, if I may use the expression, from the absence of the passions, was without motion. I climbed and descended the most imposing steeps, till at length chance led me to a valley, to which at first I paid no attention, and it was not till some time afterwards that I perceived it was beautiful, and such asl had often read of in the works of Gessner. Flowers, grass, a stream, all were there, and all formed the most harmonious picture. At length, though not fatigued, I mechanically sat down upon a piece of rock, and gave myself up to that profound reverie which I not unfrequently indulge in, and in which my ideas wander so as to make me forget that I am an inhabitant of the earth. I know not what it is that produces in me this species of ecstasy, whether it be the sleep of the soul, or an absence of the thinking faculty ; I can only say, that I delight in the feeling and wiliingly abandon myself to it. On this stone then was I sitting, when on a sudden my ear, or rather my existence, was struck by sounds, now sudden and short, and now again prolonged and slower, which proceeded from
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