Word: visions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which it is taken for granted that the earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects of the writer's personal dislike, belong to the Devil without any kind of doubt. He is also found in other poems of this age. He appears in Byron's "Vision of Judgment," he carries off Shelley's "Peter Bell," and makes himself other-wise useful. But he shows little originality in his deviltry...
...said that the zest of life is gone when we know that all is fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast...
...process of preparation. We must confess that it was with some misgivings that we started on our tour of inspection. It has been said that if we once could behold the manipulations of the "culinary artists," we would never again be able to enjoy a dinner without the horrible vision rising before our eyes. But let it be said to the credit of the steward and the management, that, although we were there at a time when there is the most confusion and general disorder-just as the dirty dinner dishes are coming down-nothing could be found which would...
...admission as a constituent part of its organization. The prospects of any such an event of course are so far removed into the future as to prevent any apprehension whether pleasant or otherwise of its realization. Indeed the majority, we believe, very fairly are inclined to regard such a vision as entirely chimerical. The prospects of the endowment and actual establishment of a great university for women in Cambridge do not seem promising. The arguments advanced on behalf of women for their admission to the privileges of this university of course have considerable force. Nevertheless, it may be doubted whether...
...Then," said he, "I see in a vision the board of overseers of Harvard College assembled at No. 50 State street (rooms of the Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Co.), and there, after the election, the board is convened. The gentleman at my right is in the chair. The gentleman on my left rises with his accustomed dignity. He says: 'Mr. Chairman, it is with no common emotion that I rise on this occasion. You are all aware of the trial we have passed through; and, as custom requires, we are about to honor the chief magistrate designated at the recent...