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... Niagara: A Poem - Página 184por Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 191 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1844 - 1128 páginas
...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes... | |
| George Combe - 1845 - 498 páginas
...powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eve is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, b»«*ver, dc not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1855 - 416 páginas
...waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, Sec., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 páginas
...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions soivast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 páginas
...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 páginas
...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast, as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity.' This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 páginas
...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast, as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 páginas
...amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 páginas
...wonderfully affected. Mr. DE QUINCT says, "buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast, as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expanse of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived 70 or 100 years in oue night, — nay, sometimes... | |
| |