[4] I assume the [Greek: aupnoi krênai nomades] to mean clouds, not
springs; but this does not matter, the whole passage being one of
rejoicing in moisture and dew of heaven.
[5] I believe, however, that when Pegasus strikes forth this
fountain, he is to be regarded, not as springing from Medusa's blood,
but as born of Medusa by Neptune; the true horse was given by Neptune
striking the earth with his trident; the divine horse is born to
Neptune and the storm-cloud.
[6] I have been often at great heights on the Alps in rough weather,
and have seen strong gusts of storm in the plains of the south. But,
to get full expression of the very heart and meaning of wind, there
is no place like a Yorkshire moor. I think Scottish breezes are
thinner, very bleak and piercing, but not substantial. If you lean on
them they will let you fall, but one may rest against a Yorkshire
breeze as one would on a quickset hedge. I shall not soon
forget,--having had the good fortune to meet a vigorous one on an
April morning, between Hawes and Settle, just on the flat under
Wharnside,--the vague sense of wonder with which I watched
Ingleborough stand without rocking.
[7] When there is a violent current of wind near the ground, the rain
columns slope _forward_ at the foot. See the Entrance to Fowey
Harbor, of the England Series.
[8] See Part IX. chap. 2, "The Hesperid Æglé."
[9] The reader must remember that sketches made as these are, on the
instant, cannot be far carried, and would lose all their use if they
were finished at home. These were both made in pencil, and merely
washed with gray on returning to the inn, enough to secure the main
forms.
[10] I do not say this carelessly, nor because machines throw the
laboring man "out of work." The laboring man will always have more
work than he wants. I speak thus, because the use of such machinery
involves the destruction of all pleasures in rural labor; and I doubt
not, in that destruction, the essential deterioration of the national
mind.
[11] You may see the arrangement of subject in the published
engraving, but nothing more; it is among the worst engravings in the
England Series.
[12] Hosea xiii. 5, 15.
[13] Hosea xiv. 4, 5, 6. Compare Psalm lxxii. 6-16.
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