 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...Buchan, in Scotland, pleafantly tells us, " If I had any Malice againft a -walking " Spirit, inftead of laying him in the Red Sea, I would condemn " him to refide in the Buller of Buchan." The Streets of this Northern Metropolis were formerly (fo vulgar Tradition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against a walking spirit, instead of laying him in the Red-sea, I would condemn him to reside in the Buller of Buchan. But terror without danger is only one... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 668 pages
...light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against...would condemn him to reside in the Buller of Buchan." Above the surface of the water are many caverns of unknown extent. Along the sen- coast also, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against a walking spirit, instead of laying him in the Red-sea, I would condemn him to reside in the Buller of Buchan. But terror without danger is only one... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below, an unknowa profundity of water. If I had any malice against a...spirit, instead of laying him in the Red Sea, I would .coudomu him to reside in the JBuller .of Buchaa. J3ut terror., without danger, is only one of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of wafer. If I had any malice against a walking spirit, instead...condemn him to reside in the Buller of Buchan. But terrour without danger is only one of the sports of fancy, a voluntary agitation of the mind VOL. VIII.... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...Nocturnis. Dr. Johnson, in his Description of the Buller of Buchan, in Scotland, pleasantly tells us, " If I had any Malice against a walking " Spirit, instead...condemn " him to reside in the Buller of Buchan." The Streets of this Northern- Metropolis were formerly (so vulgar Tradition has it) haunted by a nightly... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...Nocturnis. Dr. Johnson, in his Description of the Buller of Buchan, in Scotland, pleasantly tells us, " If I had any Malice against a. walking " Spirit, instead...condemn. " him to reside in the Buller of Buchan." The Streets of this Northern Metropolis were formerly (so vulgar Tradition has it) haunted by a nightly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against a walking spirit, instead of laying him in the lied Sea, I would condemn him to reside in th« Butter of Suchan. But terrour without danger is only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, f.bove us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against...the Red Sea, I would condemn him to reside in the Duller of Buchan. But terror without danger is only one of the sports of fancy, a voluntary agitation... | |
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We were enclosed by a natural wall, rising steep on every side to a height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement. The interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky,... 
