midnight
A boggy , soggy , squitchy picture truly , enough to drive a nervous man distracted . Yet was there a sort of indefinite , half-attained , unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it , till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant . Ever and anon a bright , but , alas , deceptive idea would dart you through . -- It 's the Black Sea in a midnight gale . -- It 's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements . -- It 's a blasted heath . -- It 's a Hyperborean winter scene .