 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, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 7371877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 724 Seiten
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 Seiten
...powerfully effected. Buildings and Landscapes 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; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 Seiten
...powerfully affected. Buildings and landscapes 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 ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1834 - 310 Seiten
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 Seiten
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &f ., ven 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, d'd not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 Seiten
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 Seiten
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eve is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, b»«*ver, dc not disturb me so much as the expansion of time. I sometimes seemed to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 Seiten
...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 infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 Seiten
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions soivast 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; I sometimes seemed... | |
 | Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley - 1848 - 204 Seiten
...affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were both exhibited in proportions so vast that 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... | |
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