 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 pàgines
...The sense of space is sometimes wonderfully affected. Mr. Do Quincy says, " buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast, as the bodily...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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1871 - 660 pàgines
...his opium-dreams, says that " buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as tho 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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pàgines
...confirmatory evidence. De Quincey, describing some of his opinm-dreams, says .that "buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 670 pàgines
...confirmatory evidence. De Quincey, describing some of his opinm-dreams, says that " buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 672 pàgines
...opinm-dreams, says that " buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bedily 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 havo... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 pàgines
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached in words. " 3. The sense of Space, and in the end the sense of Time,...fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to on extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion... | |
 | 1875 - 592 pàgines
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time,...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 640 pàgines
...despondency, cannot be approached by words. III. The sense of space, and in the end the sense ot time, vere both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c.,...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... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1876 - 660 pàgines
...opium-dreams, says that " buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so yast as tho bedily 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 654 pàgines
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. III. The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time, vere both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as... | |
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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, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable... 
