 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 to have lived for...  The Philosophy of Sleep - Page 58by Robert Macnish - 1834 - 296 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 724 lehte
...have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived: I could... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 lehte
...not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived ; I could... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 lehte
...seventy or a hundred years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. ' In the early stages of my malady, the splendors of my dreams were chiefly architectural ; and I beheld... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 lehte
...sometimes had frcltnirs representative of a millennium paused in thai time, or however, of a duration beyond the limits of any human experience.' It is...for it I believe that, whenever it occurs, the dream ha* abounded in events and circumstances which, had they occurred in reality, would have required a... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1840 - 680 lehte
...lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a milleninm passed in that time or however, of a duration far beyond the limits of my human experience. "4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years were... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 lehte
...did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes had feelings representative...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. * * * Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sun-lights, I brought together all... | |
 | Walter Cooper Dendy - 1845 - 482 lehte
...it is perhaps impossible to determine. I believe it is the opiumeater still who thus confesses : " 1 sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or a hundred...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." This may be, as your simile implies, the dream of opium madness ; but let this dream of Lavaletto also... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 lehte
...not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 lehte
...not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night, nay, sometimes had feelings representative...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 lehte
...disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings...duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. IV. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I... | |
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