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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time... The Philosophy of Sleep - Página 60de Robert Macnish - 1834 - 336 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1877 - 798 páginas
...self-repeating infinity. This disturbed me very much less than the vast expansion of time. Sometimes I seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred years...— nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. " 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 páginas
...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 millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 páginas
...receive. Space swelled, and 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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 páginas
...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 passed in that time." In another place he speaks of himself as " being buried for, a thousand... | |
| George Combe - 1845 - 498 páginas
...receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, b»«*ver, dc ombe feeling? representative of a millennium paused in that time, or however, of a duration beyond the limits... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1855 - 416 páginas
...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...representative of a millennium passed in that time." In another place he speaks of himself as " being buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with... | |
| Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 204 páginas
...both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were both exhibited in proportions so vast that the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,...millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration beyond the limits of any human experience.' It is more easy to state the fact of this apparent expansion... | |
| George Combe - 1850 - 452 páginas
...circumstances, has not escaped the notice of Mr De Quincey, better known as the 'English Opium-Eater.' 'The sense of space, says he, -' and, in the end,...millennium passed in that time, or however, of a duration beyond the limits of any human experience.' It is more easy to state the fact of this apparent expansion... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 páginas
...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; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in... | |
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