...'blue depths', when he took leave of his dead sister Elizabeth he had a vision of 'A vault [that]seemed to open in the zenith of the far blue sky, a shaft which ran up for ever' ( 1 : 42), and in the unrevised Suspira he wrote that the 'terrific grief that he experienced following...

...bereaved at the same age; 'A vault seemed to open at the zenith of the far, blue sky which ran up forever. I, in spirit, rose as if on billows that also ran up the shaft as if forever; and the billows seemed to pursue the throne of God.' Unfortunately, both children were...

...especially the sudden "trance" at Elizabeth's deathbed. As De Quincey looks through the bedroom window, "A vault seemed to open in the zenith of the far blue sky, a shaft which ran up for ever," upon which De Quincey "in spirit rose as if on billows that also ran up the shaft for ever": "The billows...

...before he took to eating opium. When he was a child he stood by his sister's dead body and suddenly a vault seemed to open in the zenith of the far blue...shaft which ran up for ever. I, in spirit, rose as on billows that also ran up the shaft for ever; and the billows seemed to pursue the throne of God;...

...to the chamber where the dead corpse lay to take his last farewell. There he suddenly had a vision: A vault seemed to open in the zenith of the far blue sky, a shaft which ran up forever. I, in spirit, rose as if on billows that also ran up forever; and the billows seemed to pursue...

...feels a blast of wind (her spirit?) and falls into a trance, seeming to have an out-of-body experience: "A vault seemed to open in the zenith of the far blue sky, a shaft which ran up forever. I, in spirit, rose as if on billows that also ran up the shaft forever" (132). He seems to...

...spirit?) and falls into a trance, seeming to have an out-of-body experience: "A vault seemed to open :n the zenith of the far blue sky, a shaft which ran up forever. I, in spirit, rose as if on billows that also ran up the shaft forever" (132). He seems to...