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... Sleep and Dreams; Two Lectures - Side 63af John Addington Symonds - 1851Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1877 - 798 sider
...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... | |
| 1821 - 724 sider
...space, and in the end, the sense of time, were lioth powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully effected. Buildings and Landscapes were exhibited in proportions...This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...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 - 1832 - 852 sider
...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...This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 sider
...landscapes were exhibited in proportions so \ast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swe'led, sent fur again when my lord Whartou is stirring."...Steele, gifted at all limes with the susceptibility of expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one nicht; nay, sometimes... | |
| Robert Macnish - 1834 - 310 sider
...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...infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 sider
...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 - 1840 - 420 sider
...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... | |
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