text:  And for softer beauty has not the eye been feasted even to excess--till you cried "hold--enough!" till you craved repose from excitement--along the whole route from Lausanne to this spot? What perfect combinations of beauty and sublimity--of grandeur of outline with richness of colouring--have you not been travelling through! It seems a fanciful illustration and yet it has more than once occurred to me when comparing the scenery of the Oberland with that of the valley of Chamouni and its neighbourhood; the one resembles the first work--be it picture or poem--of a great genius; the other the second