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t'HE MAN OF FEELING. 45
rfhen his ideas were flulhed to a degree
tnuch above their common complexion.
In times not credulous of infpiration,
we fliould account for this from fome
natural caufe ; but we do not mean to
account for it at all; it were fufficient
to defcribe its effetts; but they were
fometimes fo ludicrous, as might dero¬
gate from the dignity of the fenfations
which produced them to defcribe. They
were treated indeed as fuch by moft of
Harley’s fober friends, who often laugh¬
ed very heartily at the aukward blunders
of the real Harley, when the different
faculties, which fhould have prevented
them, were entirely occupied by the
ideal. In fome of thefe paroxifms of
fancy, Mifs Walton did not fail to be
introduced ; and the pidlure which had
been drawn amidfl the furrounding ob-
jeils of unnoticed levity, was now fing-