As soon as he reached home he went straight to the Birky Brow, certain of seeing once more the angelic phantom, but she was not there.

At last we escaped by resolutely, following the exact opposite track to that which we observed to be taken by a poet, who was chasing a phantom of Fame with a scroll of unintelligible and inharmonious verse.

Nor would he, to excite a speedy reformation, have conjured up such phantoms of terrour as these: 'A few years longer, and perhaps all endeavours will be in vain.

The Regent has raised a phantom which he cannot lay.

They had last been seen, carrying in mournful trains their sick and wounded, halt and blind, to disappear behind the western horizon, pursuing the phantom of another home.

Cyrus, Araspes, Panthea, and forms of equal loftiness revived in him; he felt the spirit of Plato weaving within him; he felt that he needed that spirit to reproduce those pictures for himself and for othersso much the more since he desired not so keenly to evoke poetic phantoms as, rather, to create a moral influence for actual beings.

Those who believe in ideals, and worship such generalities as self-consciousness, man, society, are still deep in the mire of prejudice and superstition, and have banished the old orthodox phantom of the Deity only to replace it by a new one.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

These pious arms essay'd too late To drive the dismal phantom from the door.

We must, therefore, repress that curiosity, which would naturally incline us to watch the first attempts of so vigorous a mind, to pursue it in its childish inquiries, and see it struggling with rustick prejudices, breaking, on trifling occasions, the shackles of credulity, and giving proofs, in its casual excursions, that it was formed to shake off the yoke of prescription, and dispel the phantoms of hypothesis.

Why, you're nearer real work in following the phantoms than mere gray matter ever will unfold for you.

Keep stretching forth, with vain endeavour, Their pale and palsied hands, To clasp us phantoms, as we go Along the void like drifting snow.

Vot'ries of fame, and worshippers of power, Dismiss the pleasing phantoms for an hour!

I am very cruel to thus dissipate the phantoms of your self love, but I am telling you the truth.

There is a continual and godlike longing to embody these elusive phantoms of Beauty.

Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost, encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world; neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale.

What reproach she had to make, what malediction to pronounce, Moll dared not stay to hear, but turning her back fled to the house, where, gaining her chamber, she locked the door, and flung herself upon her husband's bed; and in this last dear refuge, shutting her eyes, clasping her ears, as if by dulling her senses to escape the phantom, she lay in a convulsion of terror for the mere dread that such a thing might be.

he could not face the horrible phantom of detection, and exposure, and shame.

The king Felt in his breast the phantom of the knife, Long ere Ravaillac arm'd himself therewith.

She found the phantom of the night before browsing among flowers behind the cottage, and very kindly disposed to make her acquaintance.

Beyond them, across a darker square like a cavern-mouth, flitted the living phantoms of the street.

And in the dusky mirror glanced A splendid phantom, where there danced All brilliances in paler trace.

* THE RETURN HOME (1823-24) 1 Once upon my life's dark pathway Gleamed a phantom of delight; Now that phantom fair has vanished, I am wholly wrapt in night.

Free thyself from thine own thoughts and learn to govern thy gigantic phantoms which devour themselves in their rage....

Aside from the weakness of Clay in attempting to grasp a phantom, his character stands out in an interesting light on the whole.