It is a very dull mind, whether belonging to man or woman, that does not feel stirred by recent movementsnot here alone but all over the worldinto some quickening sense of the deeper life, the broader human claims, the unifying and uniting influences which have sprung into activity, and which address, not the visionary, but the thoughtful and far-seeing, with prophetic gleams of a new heaven and a new earth.

He has no grand swelling theories to attract the visionary and the enthusiast, no passing topics to allure the thoughtless and the vain.

This he pressed with so much warmth, that the commissioners agreed to lay my tables before Sir Isaac Newton, who excused himself, by reason of his age, from a regular examination: but when he was informed that I held the variation at London to be still increasing; which he and the other philosophers, his pupils, thought to be then stationary, and on the point of regression, he declared that he believed my system visionary.

Upon the whole, I was sadly vexed and puzzled, but at length I concluded to make a virtue of necessityto dig with a good will, and thus the sooner to convince the visionary, by ocular demonstration, of the fallacy of the opinions he entertained.

Carlyle, too, despised everything visionary and indefinite, and had more respect for what is brought about by revolution than by evolution.

"Was the Montacute that fought by the side of King Richard in the Holy Land a visionary?" said Tancred.

Strict logicians are licensed visionaries.

By the word poetic here, we do not mean the visionary or fanciful,for there may be much fancy where there is no poetic feeling,but that sensibility to harmony which marks the temperament of the Artist, and which is often most active in his earlier years.

Ever since it had rejected his message with contumely, in the days when he was but a religious visionary inspired by a dream, it had refused negotiations and even recognition to the blasphemous Prophet.

This, together with his interview with royaltyof which he of course made no secretelevated the poor visionary to the character of a prophet amongst the population of that part of the country; many of whom indeed formed themselves into a sect called Martinists, and devoutly expected the re-appearance of the son of Louis XVI.

The edged voice snapped, "Visionaries!" Hillas's eyes opened again, wide, and then the boy was looking beyond the man with the far-seeing eyes of the plainsman.

In Carlyle's hands he stands out visionary, perhaps, but yet practical, sincere, earnest, God-fearing,a patriot devoted to the good of his country.

I had been told thou wert a visionary A wanderer from the paths of common men.