 | 1821 - 724 sivua
...hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking-, feel that I had re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sivua
...seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon, because the state of gloom which attended...spectacles, amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 sivua
...hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon, because the state of gloom which attended...spectacles, amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 sivua
...re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon, because the stale of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at least to utter darkness, as of some suicidical despondency, cannot be approached by words. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 586 sivua
...could ever re&scend. Nor did I, by waking, frel that 1 had re'Aseendt-d." • • • '* Tho Reuse of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, etc., were exhibited in proportions so vast UH the bodily eyo is not 6tted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
 | 1845 - 204 sivua
...reaction which followed his opium-diet, and which he has so graphically depicted. He says,* that " the sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both painfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily... | |
 | 1845 - 434 sivua
...reaction which followed his opium-diet, and which he has so graphically depicted. He says,* that " the sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both painfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 sivua
...seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which...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,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 sivua
...hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re-ascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which...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,... | |
 | Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 204 sivua
...notice of Mr. De Quincey, better known as the ' English Opium-eater.' ' The sense of space,' says he, ' and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were both exhibited in proportions so vast ihat the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled,... | |
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... wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed every night to descend — not metaphorically, but literally to descend — into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking,... 
