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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... "
Niagara: A Poem - Page 184
by Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 191 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122

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...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

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...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 18

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...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

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...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

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...
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"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".

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...
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Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action

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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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 608 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as tho Itodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and WHS 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 seventy or one hundred years in one night.'*...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 586 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast UH the bodily eyo is not 6tted to receive. Space swelled, and waa amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me HO much as the vast expanuion of time : I Momeliinea seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred...
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