text:  He becomes inflated and lifts himself 15 000 feet above the level of the understanding of all old masters and as we think of most modern readers as thus:--"One alone has taken notice of the neglected upper sky; it is his peculiar and favourite field; he has watched its every modification and given its every phase and feature; at all hours in all seasons he has followed its passions and its changes and has brought down and laid open to the world another apocalypse of heaven