Notes on Lodore : autograph manuscript.

Describing Lodore; "Tuesday March 17. 9 o'clock. The Organ stood in the Reflected Room as a black Form, most distinct & sharp in its Lines & Figure, but perfectly transparent - the Clouds, the Moon, and the moonlike Star of Jove seen thro' with undiminished Brilliance - whereas the Reflection of the Cieling appearing like a milky mist seem'd to dim the Stars that twinkled thro' it. Look at Lodore, from our window - it is a painting - mere motionless Color - thro' the Glass, as it acquires magnitude, it gains motion / motion is therefore something, but it requires a given distinctness to be perceived - not magnitude - for an object that through the glass is no larger than Lodore to the naked eye acquire motion in the same way - it must therefore be the vigor of the rays of light / motion seems too generally to have been considered as an affection of Places - we ought to begin by considering motion in the same place - as that of a waterfall - even tho' it were true that this could be analysed in a perception of the change of place - instead of a simple Sensation."