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... The Journal of Mental Science - Page 1711890Full view - About this book
| England - 1877 - 798 pages
...space, and in the tend the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not VOL. CXXIL — NO. DCCXLVL fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space... | |
| Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...notice of Mr. De Q,uincey, better known as the " English Opium-Eater." " The sense of space," says he, " 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,... | |
| Robert Macnish - Sleep - 1834 - 362 pages
...notice of Mr. De Quincey, better known as the " English Opium Eater." " The sense of space," says he, " 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,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...and, ill the end, the seme of Iniu were boti powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &f ., ven exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye...an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, d'd not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Mental efficiency - 1840 - 420 pages
...could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 586 pages
...ever re&scend. Nor did I, by waking, frel that 1 had re'Aseendt-d." • • • '* Tho Reuse of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully...landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast UH the bodily eyo is not 6tted to receive. Space swelled, and waa amplified to an extent of unutterable... | |
| 1844 - 1128 pages
...stories drawn from times before (Edipus or Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. * * * 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,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1855 - 416 pages
...could ever reascend. Nor did I, by Q waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, Sec., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
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