 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, feel that I had reascended.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 7371877Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1871 - 878 pagini
...a deep-seated melancholy, and an exaggeration of the things of space and time. Nightly he descended "into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that he could ever reascend." He saw buildings and landscapes "in proportions so vast as the human eye is... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1855 - 416 pagini
...says, " My imagination was infinite." Again he says, more directly to our present purpose, ' I seemed to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths...hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by Q waking, feel that I had reascended. Buildings, landscapes, Sec., were exhibited in proportions so... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pagini
...2. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagini
...deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed evejy night to descend, not metaphorically but literally...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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 pagini
...II. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pagini
...II. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 pagini
...II. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed every night to descend, not meta\ phorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pagini
...accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and. gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. 1 seemed every night to descend -— not metaphorically,...Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting... | |
 | John Charles Peters - 1854 - 150 pagini
...deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. He seemed every night to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths from which it seemed hopeless that he could ever ascend. Nor did he by waking, feel that he had reascended ; the state of gloom which... | |
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