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We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. - Sir Henry Taylor (2), Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5) Fancy light from Fancy caught. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. XXIII) Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. - Isaac Watts Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle. - Archbishop Richard Whately Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. - William Wordsworth, Ode to Lycoris Fancy and pride seeks things at vast expense. - Edward Young Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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