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 VISIONS VISIONS

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His crimes forgive; forgive his virtues too. Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 2,290. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson) VISIONS Circa beatitudinem perfectam, qua? in Dei visione consistit. Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God. Thomas Aquinas—Sumrna Theologie. Probably the origin of the phrase "beatific vision." And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. Burns—The Vision. Last lines. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 238. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear. Dyer—Gronger Hill. L. 884. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul. Gray—The Bard. III. 1. L. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed! James C. Harvey—/ I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes. Hosea. XII. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said— "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." Leigh Hunt—AbouBen Adhem and the Angel. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Joel. II. 28. Acts. II. 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright, Of that rare happiness, which even on earth Heaven gives to those it loves. | author = Longfellow | work = Spanish Student. Act III. Sc.5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. | author = Lowell | work = She Came and Went. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 628. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. XL L. 763. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. Thos. Love Peacock—Castles in the Air St. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle ; and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. | author = Pope | work = Dunciad. | place = Bk. III. L. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs. XXLX. 18. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 839 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses. An Address without a Phoenix. By"S. T. P." (Not an imitation. Initials used to puzzle critics.)