play of fancy

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One who lives only in the sensations and feelings of the senses will look upon impressions of higher things as a Fata Morgana, or mere play of fancy.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

We have seen the very same incidents narrated in Wales or in Germany with breathless awe as a veritable occurrence which in India, or among the Arabs, are a mere play of fancy.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

Grotesque is all very well, but it should show a light, delicate play of fancy; and things comic are very amusing when they are not vulgar.

From Household Organization by Caddy, Florence

From this play of fancy about two half-remembered pictures Keats turns suddenly to reflections, which he would like to banish but cannot, on the ‘eternal fierce destruction’ which is part of nature’s law:—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

And he, with joyous sport, took pleasure in furnishing her at every moment with new material for the bounding play of fancy.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various