We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles Dante. ❋ Various (N/A)
Agnes Font cannot share his visionariness, as her other lover, Commander Lyle, plainly sees. ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)
It had neither the continuousness nor the range of Browning's many-sided conversation, nor did it possess the charm of the ethereal visionariness of Newman's. ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)
Mr. ----, the head of the Kumamoto Boys 'School during the period of its fierce struggles and final collapse, whom I have already referred to as the Hero-Principal, [AS] is another example of this impractical high-strung visionariness. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)
More than any other of her mental characteristics, impractical visionariness may be traced to the development of the nervous organization at the expense of the muscular. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)
It is not difficult to account for the presence of accentuated visionariness in Japan. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)
We have seen how in the Italian Renaissance the fetters of dogma, tradition, and mediæval custom were removed, and servility and visionariness gave place to healthy individuality and realism; how man and the world were discovered anew; and further, how among the other Romanic nations a lively feeling for Nature grew up, partly idyllic, partly mystic; and finally, how this feeling found dramatic expression in Shakespeare. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)
Spenserian _visionariness_ of parts -- to the gracious lulling atmosphere of the whole. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
The very name of Beketoff inflamed his resentment; and no sooner did he see that hated name attached to the dispatch than he felt himself 10 confirmed in his former views with tenfold bigotry, and wrote instantly, in terms of the most pointed ridicule, against the new alarmist, pledging his own head upon the visionariness of his alarms. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
The very name of Beketoff inflamed his resentment; and no sooner did he see that hated name attached to the despatch, than he felt himself confirmed in his former views with tenfold bigotry, and wrote instantly, in terms of the most pointed ridicule, against the new alarmist, pledging his own head upon the visionariness of his alarms. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
