 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1869 - 180 trang
...only describe the second sight, by adopting Dr. Johnson's definition, who calls it " An impression either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they were present." To which I would only add, that... | |
 | Flora Francis Wylde - 1870 - 274 trang
...Gaelic " Taibhse," which means a vifion or a speclre, and may be confidered as a kind of impreffion made, either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which means events diftant or near at hand are feen as if vifibly prefent. I heard a great deal of this from... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1873 - 614 trang
...describe the second sight, by adopting Dr. Johnson's definition, who calls it "An impression, cither by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant and future are perceived and seen as if thsy were present." To which I would . only add, that... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1875 - 620 trang
...can only dencril* the second sight, by adopting Dr Johnion's dtflnition, who calls it "An Impression, either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, bj wíilch things diitant ami future are perceived and se«_'n яв If they were frtscnt." To which... | |
 | Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster - 1879 - 354 trang
...where all are as the angels. CHAPTER II. THE COUSINS. VOL. II. E ' The second sight is an impression made, either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present This receptive faculty, for power... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 trang
...a mode uf seeing .fupcraddcd to that which Nature generally bestows; and consists of an impression made either by the mind upon the eye — or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future lire perceived and seen, as if they were present. This deceptive faculty is called... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1882 - 276 trang
...Brand in his " Observations on Popular Antiquities." He says : — " The secondjeight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the miad, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present. A man on a... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - 296 trang
...whistling shafts successful flew, And still, when dewy evening fell, The quarry to their hut they drew. by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they were present." To which I would only add, that... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 trang
...in his account of a journey to the Hebrides, thus describes it. " The second-sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived and seen as if they were present. A man on a journey, far from home,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 trang
...only describe the second sight, by adopting Dr. Johnson's définition, who calls it "An impression, either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they were present." To which I would only add, that... | |
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Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present. 
