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Phantasies of sweetest power Flower Round about on ev'ry bough, Bending now Like the magic wood of old, 'Neath the fruit that gleams like gold.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

A series of sixteen "Phantasies" by this artist has been published in Munich.

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

It is so easy to go through the world not seeing the importance of things, like the common people in "Phantasies," who never saw what a fairyland they lived in.

From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.

Phantasies of extraordinary abilities, special powers; contrasts to the anxiety of examinations; all these in the case of the wanderer mark the change from apprehension to fulfillment.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Phantasies I wove To snare thine eyes because I feared thy hand, And pledged thy strength to tasks impossible.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey