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" Turn your back to the building, stoop down, and look at it through your legs, when the effect is astonishingly grand, the defects of the ruin being but little perceived, as the whole assumes such a beautiful appearance as may be more easily conceived... "
Description of the Abbeys of Melrose and Old Melrose, with Their Traditions - Page 44
by John Bower (of Melrose.) - 1822 - 125 pages
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Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ... By S. Oliver, etc

William Andrew Chatto, Stephen OLIVER (the Younger, pseud. [i.e. William Andrew Chatto.]) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1835 - 368 pages
...obtaining a most enchanting view is thus kindly pointed out to lovers of the picturesque, of both sexes : " Turn your back to the building, stoop down and look...appearance as may be more easily conceived than expressed." Marius, among the ruins of Carthage, has been often referred to as an interesting subject for the painter;...
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Suite des Mémoires d'un homme enfermé comme aliéné

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...
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A Tour in Tartan-land

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...
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A tour in Tartan-land, by Cuthbert Bede

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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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Once a Week

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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