Volltext: The life, studies and works of Benjamin West, Esq. president of The Royal Academy of London

45 
the imagination of 
the most lasting impression on 
the 
regular-bred 
scholar, 
and 
described 
the 
Pic. 
of 
turesque circumstances 
the transactions with a 
detai l 
minuteness of 
would 
that 
have been super- 
student. 
general 
Huous to a 
In 
the 
midst 
of 
this 
COUFSC 
of 
education, 
ill 
the Artist happened to be taken 
of 
a slight fe- 
when it had 
ver, and 
subsided, 
was in 
he 
weak 
SO 
state 
HS 
to 
be 
obliged 
to 
keep 
his 
bed, 
and 
to 
have 
the 
POOH] 
darkened. 
In 
this 
situation 
he 
remained 
several 
days, 
with 
1'10 
other 
light than 
what Was 
admitted 
by the 
S63.lTlS 
and 
fissures 
in 
shutters, 
the window 
which 
had 
the 
usual 
effect 
the pupil of his eyes to such a de- 
could distinctly see every object in 
of expanding 
gree, that he 
room, 
the 
which 
to 
others 
aPP8ared 
in 
com plete 
Obscurity. While he was thus 
Observed the apparitional form 
lying in bed, he 
of a White cow 
enter 
at 
the 
one 
side 
of 
the 
roof, 
and 
walking 
gradually vanish at the other. The 
surprised him exceedingly, and he 
Mover the bed, 
phenomenon 
feared 
Was impaired 
that his mind 
by his disease, 
which his 
when on entering 
sister also suspected, 
to inquire how he felt 
himself, 
he 
related 
to 
her
	        
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