way of the fallen foam, no
pause for gathering of power, no helpless ebb of discouraged
recoil; but alike through bright day and lulling night, the
never-pausing plunge, and never-fading flash, and
never-hushing whisper, and, while the sun was up, the
ever-answering glow of unearthly aquamarine, ultramarine,
violet-blue, gentian-blue, peacock-blue, river-of-paradise
blue, glass of a painted window melted in the sun, and the
witch of the Alps flinging the spun tresses of it forever
from her snow.

"The innocent way, too, in which the river used to stop to
look into every little corner. Great torrents always seem
angry, and great rivers are often too sullen; but there is
no anger, no disdain in the Rhone. It seemed as if the
mountain stream was in mere bliss at recovering itself again
out of the lake-sleep, and raced because it rejoiced in
racing, fain yet to return and stay. There were pieces of
wave that danced all day, as if Perdita were looking on to
learn; there were little streams that skipped like lambs and
leaped like chamois; there were pools that shook the
sunshine all through them, and were rippled in layers of
overlaid ripples, like crystal sand; there were currents
that twisted the light into golden braids, and inlaid the
threads with turquoise enamel; there were strips of stream
that had certainly above the lake been mill-stream, and were
looking busily for mills to turn again; and there were
shoots of stream that had once shot fearfully into the air,
and now sprang up again, laughing, that they had only fallen
a foot or two;--and in the midst of all the gay glittering
and eddied lingering, the noble bearing by of the midmost
depth, so mighty, yet so terrorless and harmless, with its
swallows skimming in spite of petrels, and the dear old
decrepit town as safe in the embracing sweep of it as if it
were set in a brooch of sapphires."[35]

This extract from Burke's speech is a good example of the same method.

"I put this consideration of the present and the growing
numbers in the front of our deliberation, because, Sir, this
consideration will make it evident to a blunter discernment
than yours, that _no_ partial, narrow, contracted, pinched,
occasional system will be at all suitable to such an object.
It will s