 But of all the Views, I think the most horrid is, to look at the Hills from East to West, or vice versa, for then the Eye penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous Bulk, frightful Irregularity, and horrid Gloom, made yet more...  Memoir of Colonel John Cameron, Fassiefern, K.T.S., Lieutenant-colonel of ... - Page 98by Archibald Clerk - 1858 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 568 pages
...sight ; yet, in some few places, where any white crags are a-top, that harshness is something softened. But of all the views, I think the most horrid is,...penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous bulk, frightful irregularity, and horrid gloom, made yet more sombrous by the shades... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...sight; yet, in some few places, where any white crags are a-top, that harshness is something softened. But of all the views, I think the most horrid is, to look at the hills from east to west, or vice versd, for then the eye penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous bulk,... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...being rendered extremely harsh to the eye by appearing close to that diaphanous body." What be thinks "the most horrid, is to look at the hills from east to west, or vice versa ;" and he sighs for "a poetical mountain, smooth and easy of ascent, clothed with a verdant flowery... | |
 | John Paget - Glencoe Massacre, 1692 - 1861 - 422 pages
...rendered " extremely harsh to the eye by appearing close " to that diaphanous body." What he thinks " the most horrid, is to look at the hills from " east to west, or vice versa." He laments the fate which has banished him to the Highlands, and sighs for " a poetical mountain, smooth... | |
 | John Paget - 1861 - 428 pages
...rendered " extremely harsh to the eye by appearing close " to that diaphanous body." What he thinks " the most horrid, is to look at the hills from " east to west, or vice versa." He laments the fate which has banished him to the Highlands, and sighs for " a poetical mountain, smooth... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1876 - 378 pages
...Sight ; yet, in some few Places, where any white Crags are a-top, that Harshness is something softened. But of all the Views, I think the most horrid is,...penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous Bulk, frightful Irregularity, and horrid Gloom, made yet more sombrous by the Shades... | |
 | Scotland - 1876 - 400 pages
...places, where any white crags are a-top, that harshness is something softened. But of all the views, [ think the most horrid is to look at the hills from...penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous bulk, frightful irregularity, and horrid gloom, made yet more sombrons by the shades... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1876 - 408 pages
...Sight ; yet, in some few Places, where any white Crags are a-top, that Harshness is something softened. But of all the Views, I think the most horrid is, to look at the Hills from East to West, or vice vend, for then the Eye penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous Bulk,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - English poetry - 1898 - 74 pages
...gloomy brown drawing upon a dirty purple ; and most of all disagreeable when the heath is in bloom. But of all the views, I think the most horrid is,...penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous bulk, frightful irregularity, and horrid gloom, made yet more sombrous by the shades... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1905 - 368 pages
...gloomy brown drawing upon a dirty purple ; and most of all disagreeable when the heath is in bloom. But of all the views, I think the most horrid is,...penetrates far among them, and sees more particularly their stupendous bulk, frightful irregularity, and horrid gloom, made yet more sombrous by the shades... | |
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