 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 342 ページ
...whistling shafts successful flew ; And still, when dewy evening fell, The quarry to their hut they drew. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1859 - 424 ページ
...seems to be meant a mode of seeing superadded to that which Nature generally bestows ; and consists of an impression made- either by the mind upon the eye — or by the eye upo.i the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived and seen, as if they were present.... | |
 | 1866 - 524 ページ
...seems to be meant a mode of seeing superadded to that which Nature generally bestows ; and consists of an impression made either by the mind upon the eye...future are perceived and seen, as if they were present. This deceptive faculty is called Traioshe in the Gaelic, which signifies a spectre or vision, and is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 ページ
...describe the second sight, by adopting Dr. Johnson's deiiniiion, 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 they were present." To which I would only add, that the spectral... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 ページ
...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 tilings distant and future are Dcrceivcd and seen as if they were present." To which I would only add,... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1869 - 180 ページ
...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... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 ページ
...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... | |
 | Flora Francis Wylde - 1870 - 274 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 the spectral... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1875 - 620 ページ
...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... | |
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mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they 
