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They are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy ; and so colored and bestrewn 

with the flowers of poetry that, even while perplexed and bewildered in their labyrinths, it is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantment they so lavishingly present "Francis Jeffrey.