Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eyewitness, who beheld the wonder through the colored, magnifying, and distorting medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.

然而，Oftener 认为它的可信度取决于某个孤独的目击者的信念，这些目击者通过他想象中的彩色、放大和扭曲的媒介看到了奇迹，并在他事后的想法中更清晰地塑造了它。