eye of the mind

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The whole gigantic sweep of the San Joaquin expanded Titanic before the eye of the mind, flagellated with heat, quivering and shimmering under the sun's red eye.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank

Franklin never saw ghosts, except such as arise out of conscience into the eye of the mind.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

All human beings, not utterly savage, long for some information about past times, and are delighted by narratives which present pictures to the eye of the mind.

From Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Much brighter, assuredly, is He who made it; nor is the light with which the eye of the mind is concerned of this kind at all.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin by Kleiser, Grenville

But let us bring the matter more distinctly before the eye of the mind.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.