 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 - Page 7371877Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 854 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 518 pages
...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 - 278 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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