< A Treatise on Painting
Chap. CCCXXXII.—Of the Sun-beams passing through the Openings of Clouds.
The sun-beams which penetrate the openings interposed between clouds of various density and form, illuminate all the places over which they pass, and tinge with their own colour all the dark places that are behind: which dark places are only seen in the intervals between the rays.
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