Carlson, (Romanticism's) phantasy is our reality test, which she provocatively refers to as the in/fancy of. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
So far we have used "phantasy" only of real or imaginary impressions of sense. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Then, by a sleight of hand, he transforms this "phantasy" of his own brain into an unquestionable fact. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
Inward are three — common sense, phantasy, memory. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
What a phantasy has jealousy created in his brain But. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
Sometimes death itself is caused by force of phantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
In phantasy, nothing is true and everything is permitted. From Wordnik.com. [Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 2)] Reference
Boethus, that it is a phantasy presented to us by fiery air. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
What was that experience in the hospital but the phantasy of. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
A phantasy was defined by Zeno as "an impression in the soul.". From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
It is the proper3 use of phantasy — the organism positing goals. From Wordnik.com. [Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 2)] Reference
The criterion of truth then was no other than the gripping phantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
While I was frozen with the influence of this dreadful phantasy, I saw. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number] Reference
“That, good sir, is but a phantasy of yours,” replied the minister. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
His whole physical environment comes to seem a mere phantasy and a delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The waking was brief, as I ruthlessly knocked the phantasy back into its hole. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
Indeed, Elric had the passing fancy that perhaps he, himself, was the phantasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
So the Angel said: thy phantasy has imposed upon me & thou oughtest to be ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Heaven and Hell] Reference
Such a phantasy did not need proof of its own existence, or of that of its object. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
His object is the same with phantasy, his seat and organ the back part of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Lord Dunsany's phantasy, "The Gods of the Mountain," has been advanced in price to 1s. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
Her engagement I look upon as a mere phantasy, which she will be convinced of ere long. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Fairy illusion and phantasy were formerly firmly believed in by the inhabitants of Wales. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Clever people grasped onto a historical fact and extrapolated it into a phantasy nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Runaway American Brainwashing] Reference
A dict, then, was defined as "that which subsists in correspondence with a rational phantasy.". From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Beauty is knowledge of the inner workings of phantasy — what will please the organism in question?. From Wordnik.com. [Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 2)] Reference
The question only half roused him from this phantasy, and he answered, it was plain that the moon was angry. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
It is claimed by the Germans that this projectile will keep aloft for half-an-hour or more, but this is a phantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Inner senses are three in number, so called, because they be within the brainpan, as common sense, phantasy, memory. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
If he is phantastic, there is a meaning behind his phantasy; if he laughs, the world need not think that he is frivolous. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
All true artistry is self-contained and never relies upon outer physical stimulus or inward extravagance of phantasy, or of idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
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