I was awe-struck, and believed those significations to be something more than elemental fires.

It was all enchantment and a dream.

No such pleasure has since visited me but in dreams." Returning to the theatre after an interval of some years, he vainly looked for the same feelings to recur with the same occasion.
He was disappointed.

"At the first period I knew nothing, understood nothing, discriminated nothing.

I felt all, loved all, wondered all--'was nourished I could not tell how.' I had left the temple a devotee, and was returned a rationalist.