33 Metaphors for fancy

Let us supply by our imagination what our eyes are defective in; and let our fancy itself be a kind of microscope, and represent to us in every atom a thousand new and invisible worlds: but it will never be able incessantly to paint to us new discoveries in little bodies; it will be tired, and forced at last to stop, and sink, leaving in the smallest organ of a body a thousand wonders undiscovered.

He had fancies about a lot of things connected with the work of the rain-making expedition, and his fancies were practicalities.

Brown's fancy was an artist.

And fancy, Mamma, in the middle was a bouquet of yellow daisies, and they were worth their weight in goldyellow daisies brought over ninety miles of desert, and how many hundred miles of train!

Stevenson stands for the conception that ideas are the real incidents: that our fancies are our adventures.

I have known many strange tastes, but your fancy for bad Latin is the strangest of all.

If I could then have been convinced that the apostles taught no other regeneration, I almost think that even their authority would have snapt under the strain: but this is idle theory; for it was as clear as daylight to me that they held a totally different doctrine, and that the High Church and Popish fancy is a superstitious perversion, based upon carnal inability to understand a strong spiritual metaphor.

However, that same year, Marivaux amply retrieved himself in the exquisite fairy-play of Arlequin poli par l'Amour, a comedy in one act, presented at the Théâtre-Italien, October 20, and which Jules Lemaître characterizes as perhaps of all his plays "the most purely poetical, in spite of the excess of esprit, and the one in which fancy is the freest."

To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile; to a savage poet, it would have become a material and a very formidable fact.

What the fancies of the heathen about the rainbow were matters little to us: but they fancied, at least, that it belonged to some cheerful, bright and kind God.

The most remarkable feature of these illusions was, that at the time when I was most completely under their influence, I knew myself to be seated in the tower of Antonio's hotel in Damascus, knew that I had taken hasheesh, and that the strange, gorgeous and ludicrous fancies which possessed me, were the effect of it.

Fancy, though, what a good advertisement it would be for your poems!"

This fancy of dungeons for children was a sprout of Howard's brain; for which (saving the reverence due to Holy Paul) methinks, I could willingly spit upon his statue.]

Every hot fancy or passion is the signal that sets him forward, and his reason comes still in the rear.

Now, the fancy was an agony.

Both the humanitarians' fancy about the feelings concealed inside the bloater, and the vivisectionists' fancy about the knowledge concealed inside the dog, are unhealthy fancies, because they upset a human sanity that is certain for the sake of something that is of necessity uncertain.

At present, too, they are a little triumphant: the Court has shown a little spirit, and the Parliaments much less: but as the Duc de Choiseul, who is very fluttering, unsettled, and inclined to the philosophers, has made a compromise with the Parliament of Bretagne, the Parliaments might venture out again, if, as I fancy will be the case, they are not glad to drop a cause, of which they began to be a little weary of the inconveniences.

Your fancy can scarcely trust it, fearing some disastrous change; and your fancy is too true a prophet.

"Wykeham's Fancy" and the "Grey Quill Gnat" are the only other flies that need be mentioned.

But much more often, their (so called) "fancies" are the most valuable indications of what is necessary for their recovery.

I fancy "sleigh" is entirely an American expression.

We shall speak, in future, at greater length of his real character than is necessary in this place; but it may here be said, that the fancy that he was cold and unimpressible was a very great error.

The fancy becomes a passion when we find a little fellow struggling valiantly against odds.

Take note, too, of the stand of fans; what delicious fancies are therewillows, balconies, gardens, and terraces.

But he was terribly exhausted and harassed, and by degrees as the stimulant of recent comfort lost its cheering warmth within him, he silently grew despondent again within himself, and his dramatic fancies of fear became near and tragic realities.

33 Metaphors for  fancy