 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...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.,...disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time. 1 sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1876 - 660 pages
...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 perceptions in which tho bedy seems... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...amounting at last to ntter darkness as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. " 8. The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time,...swelled and was amplified to an extent of unutterable and self-repeating infinity. This, disturbed mo very much less than the vast expansion of time. Sometimes... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1877 - 440 pages
...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,...were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, <fec., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1878 - 346 pages
...amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondenc}', cannot be approached by words. (/ 3. The sense of space, and in the end the sense of time,...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1878 - 350 pages
...amounting fit last 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,...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... | |
 | Edward Hammond Clarke - Hallucinations and illusions - 1878 - 354 pages
...taken the drug under my professional care. " The sense of space," says the brilliant Opium -lover, "and in the end the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from tha ete., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. r been written." — GOTH в : Truth and Poetry ;...Own Life, Engliih Irani, THE FAMILY OF WAKEFIELD. etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
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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... 
