the most thoroughgoing ascetic could feel that he had a natural right to wander on egdon--he was keeping within the line of legitimate indulgence when laid himself open to influences such as these.
colours and beauties so far subdued were, at least, the birthright of all. only in summer days of highest feather did its mood touch the level of gaiety. intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during winter darkness, tempests, and mist.

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