 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
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 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... | |
 | Horace B. Day - 1868 - 508 σελίδες
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time. I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 704 σελίδες
...says that " 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." It is not an uncommon thing with nervous subjects to have illusive perceptions in which... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 468 σελίδες
...Quincy 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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 660 σελίδες
...says that " 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." It is not an uncommon thing with nervous subjects to have illusive perceptions in which... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 σελίδες
...says .that "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." It is not at all an uncommon thing with nervous subjects to have illusive perceptions in... | |
 | 1875 - 592 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 - 1876 - 654 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... | |
 | 1877 - 812 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...unutterable and self-repeating infinity. This, disturbed mo very much less than the vast expansion of time. Sometimes I seemed to have lived for seventy or... | |
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