Lord Jeffrey at the close of a once-famous review quaintly laments: "The tuneful quartos of Southey are already little better than lumber, and the rich melodies of Keats and Shelley, and the fantastical emphasis of Wordsworth, and the plebeian pathos of Crabbe, are melting fast from the field of our vision.

Being set, enters fantastical ROBERT OF GLOSTER in a gown girt; walks up and down.

The speculations in the paragraph that ends with these words were fantastical at any rate to one reader, who, under the signature "A Father," contributed to the March number of the London Magazine a eulogy of paternity, in which Elia was reasoned with and rebuked.

Even the "high fantastical" Duchess of Newcastle, with her laurel on her head, is received with grave honours, and not the less for declining to trouble herself with the constitutions of her maids.

But the Editor has such a fantastical and ignorant zeal for his Patron, that he will not allow his correspondents [coadjutors] to conceal anything of his; though in obedience to his commands!

Fifthly, when they are names of fantastical imaginations.

Fifthly, He that imagined to himself substances such as never have been, and filled his head with ideas which have not any correspondence with the real nature of things, to which yet he gives settled and defined names, may fill his discourse, and perhaps another man's head, with the fantastical imaginations of his own brain, but will be very far from advancing thereby one jot in real and true knowledge. 31.

Oblivious of the gorgeous ceremony in which he was playing the principal part, the young Marquis of Montacute stared at the pictures of the Crusader, and a wild, fantastical idea took hold of him.

9. both urgeth and answers), besides the covetousness, imposture, and knavery of priests, quae faciunt (as Postellus observes) ut rebus sacris minus faciant fidem; and those religions some of them so fantastical, exorbitant, so violently maintained with equal constancy and assurance; whence they infer, that if there be so many religious sects, and denied by the rest, why may they not be all false?

" This beautiful and affecting image is followed in the original by one of the most fantastical conceits of the time.

" Nobody who opened the Commedia for the first time at this fantastical image would suppose the author was a great poet, or expect the tremendous passage that ensues!]

"Never was Man more overcome with so fantastical a Passion as mine.

That which produces the greatest Part of the [Delusions ] of Mankind, is a false Hope which People indulge with so sanguine a Flattery to themselves, that their Hearts are bent upon fantastical Advantages which they had no Reason to believe should ever have arrived to them.

He understood, in its perfection, the great art of throwing the onus probandi on his adversary; and so could maintain almost any opinion, however absurd or fantastical, with fearless impunity.

Then, the huge projecting signs with their fantastical iron-workthe conduitsthe crosses (where crosses remained)the maypolesall were picturesque; and as superior to what can now be seen, as the attire of Charles the Second's age is to the ugly and disfiguring costume of our own day.

At other times the Elm assumes the shape of a plume, presenting a singularly fantastical appearance.

The idea of a four-sided triangle or of brave cowardice is unreal or fantastical, since it is composed of incompatible elements, and the idea of a centaur, since it unites simple ideas in a way in which they do not occur in nature.

On the one hand, he finds in monotheism the original true religion, which has degenerated into superstition through priestly cunning and fantastical philosophy; in primitive Christianity, the system of natural religion, which has been transformed into a complicated and contentious science by its weak, foolish, or deceitful adherents; in theology, the corruption of religion; in Bacon, Descartes, and Locke, types of untrammeled investigation.

Will the Lord be pleased with this, that and the other fantastical action, or great sacrifice of mine?'

"I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show?"Macbeth.

It would become possible for Parliament to get rid of a minister without getting rid of a ministry, and to express its disapproval oflet us saysome foolish project for rearranging the local government of Ireland without opening the door upon a vista of fantastical fiscal adventures.

To string together at will fantastical images, is not to travel into the realm of the ideal; and the imitative reproduction of the actual cannot be called the representation of nature.

My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, The single state of man seems to be used by Shakespeare for an individual, in opposition to a commonwealth, or conjunct body of men.

Such fantastical reconstructions of the other world, however, never found general favor and are confined to a few royal tombs.

That influence, owing to this misconception, is chiefly to be traced in the growth of an apocalyptic literature, and in the fantastical and material expectations of the Messianic Kingdom which they encouraged.