creature of the imagination
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To the sweetest disposition that ever graced a woman, was joined a sensibility, not the fictitious creature of the imagination, but the glowing offspring of a pure and affectionate soul.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy 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
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 then would you have, mysterious being?" said Dunwoodie, hardly able to persuade himself that the form he saw was not a creature of the imagination.
From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
