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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Visions |
| Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quæ in Dei visione consistit. Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God. Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologie. Probably the origin of the phrase “beatific vision.” | 1 |
| And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. Burns—The Vision. Last lines. | 2 |
| 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. | 3 |
| 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. | 4 |
| Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul. Gray—The Bard. III. 1. L. 11. | 5 |
| 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—Incompleteness. | 6 |
| I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes. Hosea. XII. 10. | 7 |
| 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—Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel. | 8 |
| 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. | 9 |
| 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. Longfellow—Spanish Student. Act III. Sc. 5. | 10 |
| 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. Lowell—She Came and Went. | 11 |
| Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 628. | 12 |
| O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv’d ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 763. | 13 |
| 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. | 14 |
| 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. Pope—Dunciad. Bk. III. L. 9. | 15 |
| Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs. XXIX. 18. | 16 |
| Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses. An Address without a Phœnix. By “S.T.P.” (Not an imitation. Initials used to puzzle critics.) | 17 |
| Our revels now are ended. These, our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. Tempest. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 148. | 18 |
| But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Wordsworth—Dion. V. | 19 |
| Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! Young—Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job. L. 187. Shadow of a shade is found in the prologue of Nobody and Somebody, a play acted by the servants of Queen Elizabeth. Not the shadow of the shade of history said by Paul Bourget—On Cœur de Femme. P. 186. (Ed. 1890). | 20 |
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