 | 1832 - 628 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and used all means in my power to direct my imagination from the sun. For if I thought upon him, I presently saw his picture,... | |
 | Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read : but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again; and by forbearing a few days longer to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty... | |
 | Lord Peter King King - 1830 - 468 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read: but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and...the dark, and employing my mind about other things, 1 began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again; and by forbearing a few days longer... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read, but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber, made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again ; and, by forbearing to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty well, though... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again ; and, by forbearing to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty well, though... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again ; and, by forebearing to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty well, though... | |
 | David Brewster - 1834 - 370 pages
...myself up in my chamber made dark, for three days together, and used all means in my power to direct my imagination from the sun. For if I thought upon...other things, I began in three or four days to have more use of my eyes again ; and by forbearing to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty well;... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber, made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began, in three or four days, to have some use of my eyes again ; and by forbearing a few days longer to look upon bright objects, recovered them... | |
 | Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber, made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began, in three or four days, to have some use of my eyes again ; and by forbearing a few days longer to look upon bright objects, recovered them... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...before me, BO that I durst neither write nor read, but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my chamber, made dark, for three days together, and...things, I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again ; and, by forbearing to look upon bright objects, recovered them pretty well, though... | |
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And now, in a few hours' time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass, that I could look upon no bright object with either eye but I saw the sun before me, so that I durst neither write nor read ; but to recover the use of my eyes, shut myself up in my... 
