ignus fatuus

With Rubinstein there was no ignus fatuus of mere method.

Without this, prayer and adoration become a mere nervous exhalation, reaching out for something which has no more substance than an ignus fatuus.

It is a misfortune for any man when his ignus fatuus fails to elude him.

I had grasped my ignus fatuus.

Past advantages, therefore, Noblemen and Gentlemen, are an earnest to the Catholic of future success; and after the hour of the late excitement, about the Pope's temporal and spiritual power, has passed away, I am sure, all sensible, and unbiassed Englishmen will see, that the late hubbub, has been an ignus fatuus of imaginations distorted with fear, and alarm, which had well nigh, misled the whole nation, into a quagmire of inconsistency, illiberality and revolution.