| James V. Ricci - Generative organs, Female - 1990 - 626 pages
...pleasurable sensations increased, I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images passed through my mind, and were connected with words...world of newly connected and newly modified ideas; I theorised, I imagined that I made discoveries. When I was awakened from this semi-delirious trance... | |
| Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 374 pages
...administered nitrous oxide to himself and his fellows and carefully recorded the ecstatic results: 'I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised, I imagined that I made discoveries . . . Nothing exists but thoughts! The universe is composed... | |
| David Knight - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 236 pages
...perfectly aware of my situation. By degrees as the pleasurable sensations increased, I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images...world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised; I imagined that I made discoveries. When I was awakened from this semi-delirious trance... | |
| Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 426 pages
...immediately inhaling twenty quarts of pure nitrous oxide, Davy recalled having "lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images...rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with worlds in such a manner, as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected... | |
| Sharon Macdonald - Art - 1998 - 264 pages
...reported on his experiments with the inhalation of gas. Davy 'lost all connection with external things ... I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised - I imagined that I made discoveries' (ibid.: 359). Since the late nineteenth century, the... | |
| Sharon Macdonald - Art - 1998 - 264 pages
...reported on his experiments with the inhalation of gas. Davy 'lost all connection with external things ... I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. 1 theotised - I imagined that I made discoveries' (ibid.: 359). Since the late nineteenth century,... | |
| Anthony L. Geist, José Monleón - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 368 pages
...perfectly aware of my situation. By degrees as the pleasurable sensations increased, I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images...world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised; I imagined that I made new discoveries. (487-88) But anaesthesia is not supposed to heighten... | |
| Seamus Perry - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 330 pages
...incrrased, I lust all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images rapidly passed throngh my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner,...produce perceptions perfectly noveL I existed in a wotld of newly connected and newly modified ideas. Awakened, Davy finds the vision fading quickly,... | |
| Roy Porter - Death - 2001 - 340 pages
...experiments later got him high: By degrees as the pleasurable sensations increased, I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images...world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised; I imagined that I made discoveries ... I exclaimed to Dr Kinglake, 'Nothing exists but thoughts!... | |
| Andrew Barry - Political Science - 2001 - 322 pages
...reported on his experiments with the inhalation of gas. Davy 'lost all connection with external things ... I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorised - I imagined that I made discoveries.' ° Since the late nineteenth century, however, the... | |
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