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
| 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 attended... | |
| 1855 - 692 pagini
...and impressed "unimaginable horrors" upon him. "I scemed every night to descend, not mctaphorieally, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it scemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend." The states of gloom which attended the gorgcous spectral... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 358 pagini
...2. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deepseated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless. 276 HALF-HOURS WITH TBS BEST AUTilOKS. [THOMA DE . . i ::•. tV. that I could ever re-ascend. Nor... | |
| Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1859 - 476 pagini
...heart. Eor this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words....re-ascend. Nor did I by waking feel that I had re-ascended. The sense of space and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes,... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 854 pagini
...other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such at are wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed every...night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally tcf descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths, below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that... | |
| Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1860 - 456 pagini
...heart. 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....reascend. Nor did I by waking feel that I had reascended. The sense of space, and, in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 452 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....sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it Deemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1862 - 624 pagini
...fretted my heart." All this was accompanied by a deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, that seemed to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it appeared hopeless to reascend. Time and space expanded into infinity. He felt as if he had lived a... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 304 pagini
...accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. 1 seemed every night to descend — not metaphorically,...sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it V seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did 1, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This... | |
| Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 pagini
...the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms for the eye ; and by a process, apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint...ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I h$d re-ascended. Why should I dwell upon this ? For indeed, the state of gloom which attended these... | |
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