play of fancy
Example Sentences
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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 Sidney Colvin
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 Edwin Sidney Hartland
In the Chambers he spoke with ease and animation, if not with eloquence, and often indulged in an attractive play of fancy.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
The mere process of reading, with the play of fancy that it quickened, became an agreeable pastime.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
What form shall the effort take: fable, fairy tale, a whimsical play of fancy in essay, or merely a nonsense rhyme?
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
