, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene , of the details of the picture , would be sufficient to modify , or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and , actingactupon this idea , I reinedreinmy horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling , and gazedgazedown -- but with a shuddershuddereven more thrillingthrillthan before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the grey sedge , and the ghastly tree-stems , and the vacant and eye-like windows .