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
| Edward Hammond Clarke - 1878 - 360 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 σελίδες
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, ete., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not able from my confusion as to its place, its cause, its nature, and its possible infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time: I sometimes seemed... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 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 - 1881 - 682 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... | |
| Théodule Ribot - 1882 - 266 σελίδες
...of recollection. ''Sometimes," writes De Quincey in his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," " sometimes I seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night. . . . The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1885 - 338 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... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1885 - 338 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... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1886 - 296 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... | |
| 1890 - 780 σελίδες
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not gifted 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... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1888 - 456 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... | |
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