"Seer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sacrificed, in the presence of the Arcadian seer, Arexion; for Silanus the Ambraciot had chartered a vessel at Heraclea and made his escape ere this. Sacrificing with a view to 13 departure, the victims proved unfavourable to them. Accordingly they waited that day. Certain ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
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... to God!" repeat The glad earth and the sea; And every wind and billow fleet, Bears on the jubilee. Where Hebrew bard hath sung, Or Hebrew seer hath trod, Each holy spot has found a tongue; ...
— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams
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... in degree only and not in kind from those which are at our command at the present time; on the mental plane, just as on the physical, impressions are still conveyed by means of vibrations travelling from the object seen to the seer. ...
— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater
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... to sing, how, framing hideous spells, In Skye's lone isle the gifted wizard seer, Lodged in the wintry cave with [Fate's fell spear;] Or in the depth of Uist's dark forests dwells: How they whose sight such dreary dreams engross, With their own visions oft astonished droop, When o'er the watery strath of ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum
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... tidings,—he paints the ruin of an empire as the scenic background for his picture of the distress of two simple hearts. The inferior writer, because he lays no emphasis on authenticity, cannot understand this avoidance of imposing themes. Condemned by naive incapacity to be a reporter, and not a seer, he hopes to shine by the reflected glory of his subjects. It is natural in him to mistake ambitious art for high art. He does not feel that ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes
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