 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 268 pages
...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 the spectra!... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 464 pages
...only defcribe the fecond fight, by adopting Dr. Johnfton's definition, who calls it " An impreffion either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things diftant and future are perceived and feen as if they were prefent." To which I would only add, that... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 254 pages
...only describe the secpnd 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 whjch things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they were present." To which I would only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...be eftabliQied, or the fallacy detected. The Second Sight is an impreffion made either by the Wind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things diftant or future are perceived, and feen j|s if they were prefent. A man on a journey far from hpme... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1805 - 264 pages
...with the dead they hold, And oft espy the fated shroud That shall the future corpse infold. pression , 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 the spectral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...facts, it is desirable that the truth should be established, or the fallacy detected The Second Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye,...future are perceived, and seen as if they were present. A man pn a journey far from home falls from his horse; Another, who is perhaps at work about the house,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...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 pre" sent." To which I would only add, that the spectral... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 198 pages
...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 the spectral... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...an injury to give in any other words than his own. " The second sight," says this great writer, " is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye,...future are perceived, and seen as if they were present ; a man on a journey far from home falls from his horse, another who is perhaps at work about the house... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...an injury to give in any other words than his own. " The second sight," says this great writer, " is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye,...future are perceived, and seen as if they were present; a man on a journey far from home falls from his horse, another who is perhaps at work about the house... | |
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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. 
