Could it, indeed, be barely a year since he had received the twofold welcome news that he was to leave school immediately, and proceed-scarcely less immediately-to shift for himself in a far colony; that dream of utopia to the average English boy, that too frequently rough awakening?
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Therefore I praise the belief in a catholic or universal church or community; but the objectionable word apostolic pulls me down from the utopia to which I had begun to soar, for that word spoils all.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
He was imbued with principles of life which could be fully realised only in some Platonic utopia; he had to deal with men as they were in the reign of Nero, as they are painted by Tacitus and Petronius.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill