Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have it. And after attaining it, we must light others to this way of life, this undying and eternal existence...
...will attack "muckerism" at Yale just as severely as we do at Harvard, or whenever it comes in contact with us; and reconsideration's or retractions coming weeks after the trouble complained of, will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...first the Italians were too bewildered by the boundless vista of antiquity which opened upon them to consider what was the special feature in it which attracted them. But gradually they found that what they cared for most in the ancient masterpieces was the perfection of their form. Henceforth they studied them for their form alone. Not for their matter. There were exceptions, of course, such as Laurentius Valla, Polilian, Pontanus, Marullus, Ficino, and his fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars...
From the cloisters out over a small stone bridge are the water walks and spacious grounds of the college, and nothing could be more charming than the long vista of elms on either side and the little stream. This was the poet Addison's favorite path and it is called after him "Addison's Walk." The broad green meadows stretch out on each side, where the deer are seen grazing in the shade of the old beeches whose boughs have and will shelter generations of noisy rooks...
...seemed to be walking down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before...