 The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable...  Beauties - Side 149af Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 420 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1877 - 798 sider
...some sincidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. " 3. The sense of space, and in the tend the sense of time, were both powerfully affected....exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not VOL. CXXIL — NO. DCCXLVL fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable... | |
 | 1821 - 724 sider
...amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were lioth powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully effected. Buildings and Landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 sider
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 sider
...and, ill the end, the seme of Iniu were boti powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &f ., ven exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye...an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, d'd not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 sider
...which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 586 sider
...could ever re&scend. Nor did I, by waking, frel that 1 had re'Aseendt-d." • • • '* Tho Reuse of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast UH the bodily eyo is not 6tted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1855 - 416 sider
...could ever reascend. Nor did I, by Q waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, Sec., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
 | 1845 - 404 sider
...depicted. He says,* that " the sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both painfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited...so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive ; and space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity." Other instances might... | |
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