This ideal vision Mrs. Browning had, and in so far she was the superior of George Eliot.

However, her visions are neither mere human meditations nor pious fiction.

Their vision is keener than that of other men.

The buzzard that you have startled from its pool in the gully and that circles round with wide-flapping wings has a lineage as ancient as the hills, and the vision of the pikes of Langdale that bursts on you as you reach the summit of Esk hause is the same vision that burst on the first savage who adventured into these wild fastnesses of the mountains.

He argued very rationally with Brutus to convince him that the vision which he had seen was only a phantom of sleep, taking its form and character from the ideas and images which the situation in which Brutus was then placed, and the fatigue and anxiety which he had endured, would naturally impress upon his mind.

This vision of frozen music, as some one has described it, is a square building with a dome and walls of perforated fretwork in marble as delicate as Jack Frost ever traced upon a window pane.

Since an early age the flight of roses has annually grown smaller, swifter, and farther off, till by the time I was grown up my vision had become a speck, so instantaneous that I had hardly time to realise that it was there before the fading sparks showed that it was past.

Double vision with the eyes of the heart is a dangerous physiological state, and may lead to missteps and serious falls.

So I saw her afterwards, in my sleep at school,a silent presence near my bedlooking at me with the same intent face,and the vision is still a constant blessing to me.

" Another Irish vision of great popularity all over Europe in the Middle Ages is the Voyage of Saint Brendan.

The vision he had caught remained the goal Of manhood's aspiration and the theme Of those high luminous musings that redeem Our souls from bondage to the general dole Of trivial existence.

You are the type of man who pays a compliment as naturally as he breathes, and whose vision is a sensitive plate which retains an impression of every feminine grace.

But I find that to some people this vision of mine is a nightmare, and extinguishes all ground of faith in God or pleasure in man.

This explains the fact, so important to consider, that the clearer the mental vision is the less one reasons.

Visions, like dreams, are often mere patchworks built up of bits of recollections.

I think there can be no doubt that the vision is the sense they are most indebted to for directing them to their food.

Though he rejected dogmatic Catholicism, and indeed assailed it with Voltairian mockery, yet his vision of the Eternal as the embodiment of that mercy and goodness which is greater than justice is in its essence a Christian conception.

All true visions are promises, and that which we had was but a glimpse of a Jerusalem we shall one day live in altogether.

I cannot doubt that visions of this description were in some cases the basis of that firm belief in astrology, which not a few persons of eminence formerly entertained.

Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones is the earliest appearance of this thought in any writing of whose date we are certain.

To reject such memories, such social influences, she regards as "a blinding superstition," and says that the moral visions of a nation are an effective bond which must be accepted by all its members.

As it grew, the spectral vision of our world became relatively or absolutely fainter.

"Vision is another figure of speech, which is proper only in animated and warm composition.

The later visions are proclamations of the moral and spiritual life of man.

These visions of the poet are very faint and delicate things; there is little of robust confidence about them, while there are plenty of loud and insistent voices on every side of him to tell him that he is shirking the work of the world, and that he is not lifting a finger in the cause of humanity and progress.