Show by the way I 1 wonder what the poets fancy the word means with ona accord they use it as if it something in external nature appealing very pleasantly to the sense of sight I 1 walked in a ot gold and of golden leaves says one of them in a magazine the word Is obsolete in the lary of ordinary mortals but the die tlona rles tell us that it denoted some sort et defect of vision causing the victim to see things differently from the reality probably glaucoma or aph which in primitive timea was ascribed to witchery this was point ed out long ago but the periodical bards go on using or the word in the same old way roches ter post express |