I say insufferable for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable,because poetic ,sentiment ,with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.