85 Words to use with visionary

" "Such," said Imlac, "are the effects of visionary schemes; when we first form them, we know them to be absurd, but familiarize them by degrees, and, in time, lose sight of their folly.

Percy says that Goldsmith applied to the prime minister, Lord Bute, for a salary to enable him to execute 'the visionary project' mentioned in the text. '

E'en so thy visionary scenes I hail; That like the ramblings of an idiot's speech, No image giving of a thing on earth.

He hated visionary ideas and abstract theories; he had no faith in them at all.

This unexpected prevalence of a visionary tendency among persons who form a part of ordinary society seems to me suggestive and well worthy of being put on record.

Under these circumstances we should expect that it would be unequally developed in different races, and that a large natural gift of the visionary faculty might become characteristic not only of certain families, as among the second-sight seers of Scotland, but of certain races, as that of the Gipsies.

A correspondent writes me (Feb. 12th) on these visionary plans of investment.

"Heroes all generosity and ladies all chastity, exalted above the vulgarities of society and nature, maintain, through eternal folios, their visionary virtues, without the stain of any moral frailty, or the degradation of any human necessities.

"Approach, my father," said the visionary form, in a voice so musical that it thrilled through his frame"approach, and let what you now hear be for ever graven upon your heart.

"Here in this strange visionary world of the pictures one lives in a maelstrom of emotions.

But what was the fruit of Cromwell's well-intended usurpation?a hideous reaction, the return of the Stuarts, the dissipation of his visionary dreams.

Terrible lesson for those discontented and mistaken people, who, enriched by commerce, are not content with freedom and independence, but seek for visionary benefits, by becoming the partizans of innovation, or the tools of faction!

The first year of his married life saw him still, in spite of the failure of Pantisocracy, an eager visionary reformer upborne by generous enthusiasm and ardent religious feeling.

His tired fancy strayed off for a second to the thought of what it would have been like come back, at the end of the day, to such a sweet community of silence; but his mind was too crowded with importunate facts for any lasting view of visionary distances.

It was not with foreign Powers that he had the greatest difficulty, but to manage the turbulent elements of internal hostilities and jealousies, and oppose the anarchic forces of doctrinaires, visionary dreamers, clerical aggressors, and socialistic incendiaries,foes alike of a stable government and of ultimate progress.

It was, in truth, An ordinary sight; but I should need Colours and words that are unknown to man, 255 To paint the visionary dreariness Which, while I looked all round for my lost guide, Invested moorland waste, and naked pool, The beacon crowning the lone eminence, The female and her garments vexed and tossed 260 By the strong wind.

Your partiality to the pageantry of popery I do approve, and I doubt whether the world would not be a loser (in its visionary enjoyments) by the extinction of that religion, as it was by the decay of chivalry and the proscription of the heathen deities.

"The science of philology," says Dr. Alexander Murray, "is not a frivolous study, fit to be conducted by ignorant pedants or visionary enthusiasts.

Yet I will do so, in order, if possible, to put a stop to such visionary etymologies.

Don Martin was the only one who followed him in his visionary excursions into the future.

These definite, sensible results, sandwiched in between all the visionary explanation, left him utterly at sea.

Many have had "The visionary eye, the faculty to see The thing that hath been as the thing which is," but either from native defect, or the mistaken bias of education, have been frustrated in the attempt to give their visions beautiful or intelligible shape.

"Two Men" I began as I did the others, with a single motive; the shadow of a man passed before me, and I built a visionary fabric round him.

Among them, one visionary figure flits with a mysterious pre-eminence, flickering over every page, like a familiar and ghostly flame.

Some things like visionary flights appear; The spirit caught him up the Lord knows where; And gave him his rabbinical degree, Unknown to foreign university.

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