But dreames (my lord) you know growe by the humors Of the moist night, which, store of vapours lending Unto our stomaches when we are in sleepe And to the bodies supreame parts ascending, Are thence sent back by coldnesse of the braine, And these present our idle phantasies With nothing true but what our labouring soules Without their active organs safelie worke.

That witches are melancholy, they deny not, but not out of corrupt phantasy alone, so to delude themselves and others, or to produce such effects.

by the dainty, sweet, and soothing phantasies of honey-tongued Spenser!

Human shows, far phantasies, songs and trifles.

Now know I well how that fond phantasy Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly.

Dex worked nearer to High Chin, but so slowly that High Chin thought it was some horrible phantasy sent to awaken fear in his dulled brain.

He wishes his soul to be immortal, and so he accepts the religious phantasies of heaven and hell.

During our winter stay at Versailles, my childish phantasies recurred to me, and I almost found them feasible.

A wayward phantasy might say That little ocean-maids Were clapping little hands of play, Deep down in ocean-glades.

Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this kind, as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, especially caused in their children by force of a depraved phantasy in them:

Disordered phantasies indulged too much.

For extravagant phantasies and barbaric splendors he beat the world.