creature of the imagination
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It was the creature of the imagination, the offspring of the soul from its own conceptions, kindled only into life by an external object.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
A Dobbin seemed to him to be such a one as might probably be met with in the world, whereas to his thinking a Ravenswood was simply a creature of the imagination.
From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony
"And why a creature of the imagination?" inquired M. Delevert.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
She argued to herself that one of the two persons was necessarily a creature of the imagination, and, deciding that the gentleman had no real existence, she sat down on the arm-chair.
From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.
In the Buddhist philosophy the world is thus held to be a creature of the imagination.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
