Illusions are deceptions arising from a temporarily or permanently disordered imagination, or from phenomena occurring in nature: thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, of dreams, and of optical illusions.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.
When the time comes that he should go, there need be few illusionsleft about himself.
For you, my darling, the illusions of love are possible; for me, only the facts of homely life remain.
All that sigh contained of ambition silently stifled, of extinguished illusions and disappointed hopes, Athos alone divined, for he alone heard that sigh.
From a passage of Plato it is clear, that the Greeks carried the illusions of theatrical perspective much farther than, judging from some wretched landscapes discovered in Herculaneum, we should be disposed to allow.
We ought only to be awaked out of the voluptuous dreams of feeling to enjoy the magical illusions of fancy.
I could not have told why I was so happy; for, though I should not have been willing to confess it, I had long lost all my illusions about the girl.
After we get to the point of recognizing that habits must intervene between wish and execution in the case of bodily acts, we still cherish the illusions that they can be dispensed with in the case of mental and moral acts.
The psychology of illusions of perception is full of illustrations of the distortion introduced by habit into observation of objects.
Though he soon came to discern how little congenial his feelings were with theirs, yet in the beginning doubtless such honest illusions contributed materially to strengthen their hands.
You sailors indulge in many illusions and, perhaps from seeing things too closely, you do not realize the inferiority of our fleet to that of the English.
When all this excitement was over my master sank into deep melancholy; he would scarcely speak and seemed as though his soul, having no illusions left, had closed accounts with the world and was only waiting to take its departure.
She had no illusions that this was the work of a common thief.
Strange mirages of the mind arise and stranger illusionsare suffered.
Mr. Sims bowed his head over his plate, as another of his lost illusions vanished into thin air.
Mrs. Singleton Corey had another illusion among her collection of illusions about herself.
Jack had lived with his mother for twenty-two years, and although he was very much afraid of her, he felt that he had no illusions concerning Mrs. Singleton Corey.
But what contrivances, what illusions have we here?
Up to the last, they are to entertain the same illusions and manifest the same docility.
There was a curious warm interest in it that might have flattered a man less bare of illusions as to his appearance.
She had seen it last vague with the illusions of the dawn, hemmed in by mists and shadows that seemed to veil the distances and what they held.
However--at least for a brief time you have given me back something of the hopes and illusions of youth.
Patience and longsuffering with joyfulness' seems at first but a poor result of such a force, but it comes from a heart that was under no illusions as to the facts of human life, and it finds a response in us all.
They live in a region of illusions which will pass away at cock-crowing, and leave them desolate.
It has cast illusions over the future, colouring the far-off hills with glorious purple which, reached, are barren rocks and cold snow.
But for us the twilight has broadened into day, and we shall be wise if, knowing our defencelessness, and forsaking all the lies and illusions of this vain present, we flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us in the Gospel.
By the end of it the young lady has lost all her military illusions and admires this mercenary soldier not because he faces guns, but because he faces facts.
Broadbent, whose mind is all fog and his morals all gush, is firmly persuaded that he is bringing reason and order among the Irish, whereas in truth they are all smiling at his illusions with the critical detachment of so many devils.
Minds subject to manifest and distressing illusions are not to be rated as perfectly logical and altogether sound.
But though she cannot draw him to her embrace, Matilda La Contessa gains a gradually growing influence over the Count by 'her siren illusions and well-timed blandishments.
There is no ground for suspecting he was visited by hallucinations so fleeting that they might be styled 'illusions of the hour.
For, of all the illusions which give a zest to life, the illusionscreated by this flattering passion are the most delightful and inspiring.
I have made use of similar illusions in the contests you have had with my followers.
Most of us who are buying the British and French War Loans have noillusions on that score; we know we are buying an income of diminishing purchasing power.
They will have no illusions about the conduct of the war by the governing classes, or the worshipful heroism of peers and princes.
We shall then be making that rare advance in wisdom which consists in abandoning our illusions the better to attain our ideals.
He felt a genuine admiration for that humane courage which made the Greeks, for all their clear consciousness of fate, hopeful without illusions and independent without rebellion.
The vital and historic forces that produce illusionsof this sort in large groups of men are indeed beyond the control of criticism.
Liberalism and transcendentalism both harboured some illusionson that score; and they were in the air which our poet breathed.
It is one of the greatest possible illusions in these matters to fancy that the meaning which we see in parables and mysteries was the meaning they had in the beginning, but which later misinterpretation had obscured.
He will then remember his stifled loves; he will feel that only his illusions have ever given him a sense of reality, only his passions the hope and the vision of peace.
Illusions like the tints of pearl, Or changing colors of the sky, Or ribbons of a dancing girl That mend her beauty to the eye.
Chandler Robbins Ibn Jemin, From Illusions Informing Spirit, The In Memoriam Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love Initial Love, The Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War Insight Intellect J.
Mr. Mitra, moreover, makes various praiseworthy efforts to dispel certain illusions frequently nourished by some of his countrymen, and to diminish the width of the religious gulf which separates the rulers from the ruled.
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