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... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 355edited by - 1841Full view - About this book
| 1821 - 724 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to -receive ; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive; space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in... | |
| Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 310 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable 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,... | |
| Robert Macnish - Sleep - 1834 - 362 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable 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 pages
...was amplified to 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 x hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had frcltnirs representative of a millennium paused in... | |
| Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1840 - 680 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This...expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a milleninm passed in... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Mental efficiency - 1840 - 420 pages
...itself in his dreams. After saying that space was amplified to an unutterable infinity, he adds : " This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast...expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night. Nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a miltennium... | |
| 1844 - 1128 pages
...exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This,...expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in... | |
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