text:  The impossible hero the impossible heroine and their extravagant sentiments afford scope for a strife and a torture of thought which is an inseparable medley of wit and argumentation; wit reasoning and logic jesting; a strange confusion of mental actions with an unfavourable result; for this result is neither TRUTH nor MIRTH; but very CHIMERA--changing colour like the chameleon--shape like the clouds and substance like the contents of an alchemist's crucible