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" I feared to move my eyes, lest the singular appearance should vanish, and I cried out, ' O ! deepen it ! deepen it !' supposing this the precursor of the sleep. It could not be deepened, however ; and when I glanced aside from the luminous point, I found... "
Letters on Mesmerism - Page 8
by Harriet Martineau - 1845 - 65 pages
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The Churchman's Monthly Review and Chronicle

Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...objects to their ordinary appearance while the passes were continued. The busts re-appeared, gboat-iike, in the dim atmosphere, like faint shadows, except...burned with the same phosphoric light. The features of oue. an I*ia with bent head, seemed to be illumined by afire on the floor, though this bust has its...
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The Polytechnic Review and Magazine of Science, Literature and the ..., Volume 1

Arts - 1844 - 498 pages
...outline of all objects became indistinct, but dressed in a beautiful light, objects appeared ghost-like, like faint shadows, except that their outlines and the parts in the highest relief burned with phosphoric light; a delicious sensation of ease spread over her, a cool comfort before which all pain...
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Mesmeric Experiences

Spencer Timothy Hall - Hypnotism - 1845 - 122 pages
...my eyes, lest the singular appearance should vanish, and I cried out, ' O ! deepen it ! deepen it !' supposing this the precursor of the sleep. It could...illumined by a fire on the floor, though this bust haa its back to the windows. Wherever I glanced all outlines were dressed in this beautiful light;...
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Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 63

Medicine - 1845 - 546 pages
...eyes, lest the singular appearance should vanish ; and 1 cried out, - O ! deepen it ! deepen it !- supposing this the precursor of the sleep. It could...an Isis with bent head, seemed to be illumined by a tire on the floor, though this bust has its back to the windows. Wherever I glanced, all outlines were...
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The Northern Journal of Medicine: A Monthly Survey of the Progress ..., Volume 2

1845 - 494 pages
...their ordinary appearance while the passes were continued. The busts reappeared ghostlike in the dun atmosphere, like faint shadows, except that their outlines and the parts in the highest relief burnt with the same phosphoric light. * * * Wherever I glanced all outlines were dressed in this beautiful...
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Dream Land and Ghost Land: Visits and Wanderings There in the Nineteenth Century

Edwin Paxton Hood - Dreams - 1852 - 248 pages
...deepen it !' supposing this the precursor of the sleep. It could not be deepened, however ; and when 1 glanced aside from the luminous point, I found that...features of one, an Isis with bent head, seemed to be illuminated by a fire on the floor, though this bust had its back to the windows. Wherever I glanced...
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Women's Theology in Nineteenth-century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of ...

Julie Melnyk - History - 1998 - 264 pages
...should vanish, and I cried out, 'O! deepen it! deepen it!' supposing this the precursor of the sleep. I could not be deepened, however; and when I glanced...floor, though this bust has its back to the windows. This appearance continued during the remaining twenty minutes before the gentlemen [Mr. Hall and a...
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Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-century Mystical Writings

Sarah A. Willburn - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 194 pages
...of the sleep. I could not be deepened, however; and when I glanced aside from the luminous point, 1 found that I need not fear the return of objects to...floor, though this bust has its back to the windows. This appearance continued during the remaining twenty minutes before the gentlemen [Mr Hall and a male...
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New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

Medicine - 1845 - 444 pages
...my eyes, lest the singular appearance should vanish ; and I cried out, 'O! deepen it ! deepen it!' supposing this the precursor of the sleep. It could...relief, burned with the same phosphoric light. The teatures of one, an Isis with bent head, seemed to be illumined by a fire on the floor, though this...
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