The things we do!

And so with pictures:
I think you only get signs of colour, and formulas to stand for it. That
brick-dust which we agree to receive as representing a blush, look at it
--can you say it is in the least like the blush which flickers and varies
as it sweeps over the down of the cheek--as you see sunshine playing over
a meadow? Look into it and see what a variety of delicate blooms there
are! a multitude of flowerets twining into one tint! We may break our
colour-pots and strive after the line alone: that is palpable and we can
grasp it--the other is impossible and beyond us." Which sentiment I here
set down, not on account of its worth (and I think it is contradicted--as
well as asserted--in more than one of the letters I subsequently had from
Mr. Clive, but it may serve to show the ardent and impulsive disposition
of this youth), by whom all beauties of art and nature, animate or
inanimate (the former especially), were welcomed with a gusto and delight
whereof colder temperaments are incapable.


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