| Guillaume Monod - Mentally ill - 1838 - 172 pages
...mode of attaining a most enchanting view kindly pointed out to the lovers of picturesque, is thus : Turn your back to the building, stoop down and look at it through your legs, when the effect is astonishing grand ! — » L'autre citation est tirée d'un article sur un voyage en Syrie, par un... | |
| Cuthbert Bede - Scotland - 1863 - 458 pages
...and dedicated ' to Walter Scott, Esq., of Abbotsford.' The old guide thus directs the visitor : — ' Turn your back to the building, stoop down, and look...appearance as may be more easily conceived than expressed. The effect is perhaps produced partly from looking at the ruin, as it were, through a frame, and seeing... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1863 - 460 pages
...and dedicated ' to Walter Scott, Esq., of Abbotsford.' The old guide thus directs the visitor : — ' Turn your back to the building, stoop down, and look...appearance as may be more easily conceived than expressed. The effect is perhaps produced partly from looking at the ruin, as it were, through a frame, and seeing... | |
| Electronic journals - 1866 - 618 pages
...visitor for obtaining the best view of the exterior from the south-east corner of the churchyard : — " Turn your back to the building, stoop down and look...appearance as may be more easily conceived than expressed." — Description of the Abbeys ofj^fetrose and Old llfelrose, by John Bower, Jun., 18ia, dedicated to... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1870 - 788 pages
...one side." John Bower also gave printed directions for taking a very novel view of the ruins: — " Turn your back to the building, stoop down, and look...your legs, when the effect is astonishingly grand" (p. 41). THE clever and eccentric James Bumet, Lord Monboddo, who had witnessed the death of Captain... | |
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