 I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended.  Beauties - Side 149af Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 420 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1877 - 798 sider
...literally to descend — into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I by waking feel that I had reascended. Why do I dwell upon this ? For indeed the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles,... | |
 | 1821 - 724 sider
...but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by...which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths, below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by...spectacles, 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...words. I seemed to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from 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 so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 sider
...but literally to descend, inio chasms and sunless abysses, depths, below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by...spectacles, 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 sider
...but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths, below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by...re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon, because the stale of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at least to utter darkness, as of... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 sider
...purpose, ' I seemed to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from 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 so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 sider
...but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by...suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 sider
...but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by...suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 sider
...to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which.it >rdid I do / seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at... | |
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