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Spinello , striving to conceive the image of Lucifer for his picture of the Fallen Angels , was at last actually haunted by the Shadow of the Fiend . Newton himself has been subjected to a phantom , though to him , Son of Light , the spectre presented was that of the sun ! You remember the account that Newton gives to Locke of this visionary appearance . He says that ` though he had looked at the sun with his right eye only , and not with the left , yet his fancy began to make an impression upon his left eye as well as his right ; for if he shut his right and looked upon the clouds , or a book , or any bright object with his left eye , he could see the sun almost as plain as with the right , if he did but intend his fancy a little while on it ; ' nay , ` for some months after , as often as he began to meditate on the phenomena , the spectrum of the sun began to return , even though he lay in bed at midnight , with his curtains drawn ! ' Seeing , then , how any vivid impression once made will recur , what wonder that you should behold in your prison the Shining Shadow that had first startled you in a wizard 's chamber when poring over the records of a murdered visionary ? The more minutely you analyze your own hallucinations -- pardon me the word -- the more they assume the usual characteristics of a dream ; contradictory , illogical , even in the marvels they represent . Can any two persons be more totally unlike each other , not merely as to form and years , but as to all the elements of character , than the Grayle of whom you read , or believe you read , and the Margrave in whom you evidently think that Grayle is existent still ?