 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...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 - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Sleep - 1834 - 362 pages
...notice of Mr. De Quincey, better known as the " English Opium Eater." " The sense of space," says he, " and, in the end, the sense of time were both powerfully...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night; nay,... | |
 | Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...notice of Mr. De Q,uincey, better known as the " English Opium-Eater." " The sense of space," says he, " and, in the end, the sense of time were both powerfully...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...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 - Mental efficiency - 1840 - 420 pages
...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 - American periodicals - 1841 - 586 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
