 | John H. King - Genetic psychology - 1893 - 344 pages
...time were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in such vast proportions as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled and was amplified to unutterable infinity. I seemed to have lived seventy or one hundred years in one night, and had feelings... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...utilization will cost more than the land and the water are worth. — Mead : Irrigation Inntitutions, p. 5. The sense of space, 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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Readers - 1898 - 282 pages
...amounting at 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, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, land- 10 scapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive.... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1898 - 392 pages
...and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I would ever reascend. The sense of space and in the end the sense of time were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive." (Confessions... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1898 - 382 pages
...sense of space and in the end the sense of time were both powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive." (Confessions of an Opium-eater.) The vaso-motor effects of opium are thus accompanied by proportional... | |
 | Théodule Ribot, Frances Alice Welby - Abstraction - 1899 - 260 pages
...of space ; thus, De Quincy, describing some of his opium dreams, says that "buildings and landscapes were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily...was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity." 1 " Deliberate analysis of their movements," says Lotze, "is so little practised by women that it can... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 434 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, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1900 - 264 pages
...amounting at 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...unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so 15 much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1900 - 294 pages
...despondency, cannot be approached by words. V , 3. The sense of space, and in the end, the sense to of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings,...unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so 15 much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 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, 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... 
