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 - 1888 - 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 - 804 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... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1894 - 824 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... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 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 - 1898 - 282 σελίδες
...affected. Buildings, land- 10 scapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified...the vast expansion of time. Sometimes I seemed to 15 have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 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... | |
| Théodule Ribot, Frances Alice Welby - 1899 - 260 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." 1 " Deliberate analysis of their movements," says Lotze, "is so little practised by women... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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 - 1900 - 264 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 15 much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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... | |
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