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Visin, a Russian who had the p ower of blunting weapons by a look. Starchaterus, the Swede, when he went against him, covered his sword with thin leather, and by this means obtained an easy victory.

Vision of Judgment (The), a poem in twelve parts, by Southey, written in hexameter verse (1820). The laureate supposes that he has a vision of George III., just dead, tried at the bar of heaven. Wilkes is his chief accuser, and Washington his chief defender. Judgment is given by acclamation in favour of the king, and in heaven he is welcomed by Alfred, Richard Cœur de Lion, Edward III., queen Elizabeth, Charles I., and William III., Bede, friar Bacon, Chaucer, Spenser, the duke of Marlborough, and Berkeley the sceptic, Hogarth, Burke the infidel, Chatterton who made away with himself, Canning, Nelson, and all the royal family who were then dead.

Of all the literary productions ever issued from the press, never was one printed of worse taste than this. Byron wrote a quiz on it, called The Vision of Judgment, in 106 stanzas of eight lines each (1820).

Vision of Mirza (The). (See Mirza, p. 711.)

Vitalis, the pseudonym of Eric Sjöberg, a Swedish poet. (Latin, vita lis, “life is a strife.”)

Vitiza or Witiza, king of the Visigoths, who put ou t the eyes of Cordova the father of Roderick. He was himself dethroned and blinded by Roderick.—Southey: Roderick, the Last of the Goths (1814).