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... Niagara: A Poem - Page 184by Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1877 - 798 pages
...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 and self-repeating infinity. This disturbed me very much less than the vast expansion of time. Sometimes... | |
| 1821 - 724 pages
...were lioth powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...infinity. 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 pages
...time, were both powerfully effected. Buildings and Landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to -receive ; space swelled,...infinity. 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 pages
...waking, feel that I had reascended. 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 unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swelled,...infinity. 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 pages
...landscapes were exhibited in proportions so \ast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swe'led, 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 to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one nicht; nay, sometimes... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...were boti powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &f ., ven exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...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 pages
...waking, feel that I had reascended. 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 unutterable infinity." These statements seem to show the possibility that the mind may be injuriously... | |
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