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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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6 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.

most distinctly and shown in curious contrast.
Why-there should be such difference I am not able to
explain; why the sun’s rays in passing westwards
should tint the sky with warm, languid, evening
colours, while those that at the same moment start
upwards towards the east should look so cool, and
gray, and wakeful, I cannot tell; but here they are, side
by side, in unmistakeable contrast.

We all dream of the bright sky of the sunny south,
of its clear blue zenith .and golden-hazed horizon; but
when we live beneath it for awhile and gaze upon it
daily, its fiery, dazzling beauty overstrains the, senses,
and the eye soon tires of its glare; but in this modest
twilight of the north, the gentle " gloamin," there’s a
tempered fascination that never wearies us—it grows
continually in loveliness even unto midnight and its
next day’s reawakening. It bears the same relation to
the southern sunlight that affection does to passion.
There is no reaction, 110 craving for the shade.

Painters have represented nearly all kinds of sky
effects. Turner, like an eagle, has dared to face the
sun in his full glare, and to place him in the middle of
his pictures, showing us how we see a landscape with
sun-dazzled eyes, when everything is melted into a
luminous chaos, and all the details blotted out with
misty brightness. Danby, and many others, have
painted sunsets gloriously; a few antique Dutchmen
have accurately copied particular instances of sunrise.
Such a midnight as this would be a glorious subject for
a painter worthy of it, and to the artist himself a most

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