Word: visions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright by an optimistic vision. In the "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" it is the man lost, disregarding the existing incompleteness of life, and therefore more subdued and with a vein of sadness, yet one who sees and realizes the good when once attained, and therefore the man of true optimism...
...Greer preached entirely without notes and spoke in a most forcible, vivid and interesting manner. The text was taken from the 29th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, 18th verse, "Where there is no vision the people perish." "The word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left...
...knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than one, the alma mater of the yet-undreamt-of College in the wilderness; who knows but that the vision of that altar and its vows was in his mind, when he wrote those words of his description of Cordelia...
...Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens in white, representing the two genuises of the Schola Ruperto Carola, gay modern banners, modern dresses and corps of modern students - and the vision is gone, and we are standing in the Heidelberg of to-day, cheering with the excited populace. The procession has taken a half hour to pass and is considerably over a mile long. The horses have been especially noteworthy for their spirit and beauty. We join the huzzas...
Instead of meeting on Friday, 12-1, the freshman class in elocution will meet at the same hour on Tuesday. All students who take the work will bring with them copies of "The Vision of Sir Launfal...