 The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc. 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Σελίδα 7371877Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 σελίδες
...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 infinity.' This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 σελίδες
...QUINCT says, "buildings and landscapes 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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expanse of time. I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 298 σελίδες
...powerfully affected—space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night." This may be owing to the fact that incidents crowd and jostle one another, which would have taken years... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb rne so much as the vast expansion of time. I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1859 - 476 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 452 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time. I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 420 σελίδες
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified...lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; uay, sometimes had feelings representative of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 σελίδες
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified...than the vast expansion of time. Sometimes I seemed REMOTE MEMORY. 249 to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings... | |
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