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Fancy Quotes - Page 8

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

John Milton (1872). “Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words”, p.78

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

"Letters on the Study and Use of History". Book by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Letter 4, 1752.