creature of the imagination
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If you admire fictions much more terrible and monstrous, why is it that this character, even if regarded merely as a creature of the imagination, cannot obtain quarter at your hands?
From A Hero of Our Time by Wisdom, J. H.
At present he appears to be the persecutor, and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
The sceptic will see in the spectre but the pangs of conscience taking a bodily form, but even if only the creature of the imagination, it was equally real to the sufferer.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
Matter is a creature of the imagination, and is a pure assumption.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
"What is this Republic? this creature of the imagination which you place above all else in the world?" she asked impetuously.
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by Sage, William
