Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
John Bunyan
Quotes , Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II, l. 126), The Author's Way of Sending Forth his Second Part of the Pilgri
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While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 118)
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Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 118)
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as
it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Among My Books--Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
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She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine.
William Mee
Quotes , Source: Alice Gray
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When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 225)
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The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a tincture from our own;
Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 31)
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for such a mind
Is soft contemplative, and kind.
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: Rokeby (canto I, st. 31)
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When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
Within a hour; and pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
Lo, what befell!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Oliver at IV, iii)
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Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engend'red in the eyes,
With gazing fed, and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Song at III, ii)
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So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at I, i)
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Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Sebastian at IV, i)
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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
Quotes , Source: Philip Van Artevelde (pt. I, act I, sc. 5)
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Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Ode to Lycoris
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