A Painter delineating the interior of the chapel and its minute features, under such circumstances, would have no doubt found his time agreeably shortened.

But the movements of the mind must be more free while dealing with words than with lines and colours.

Such, at least, was then, and has been on many other occasions, my belief; and as it is allotted to few to follow both arts with success, I am grateful to my own calling for this and a thousand other recommendations which are denied to that of the Painter.
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*_The Trosachs_.

[VI.] As recorded in my Sister's Journal, I had first seen the Trosachs in her and Coleridge's company.