Dr. Johnson's Critical Vocabulary: A Selection from His DictionaryUniversity Press of America, 1986 - 268 pages |
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... FANTASTICK . Dryd Juven . Sat. adj . 1. Irrational ; bred only in the imagination . The delight that a man takes from another's sin , can be nothing else but a fantastical , preternatural complacency , arising from that which he really ...
... FANTASTICK . Dryd Juven . Sat. adj . 1. Irrational ; bred only in the imagination . The delight that a man takes from another's sin , can be nothing else but a fantastical , preternatural complacency , arising from that which he really ...
Page 112
... fantastick imagery . Taylor . 3. Copies of the fancy ; false ideas ; imaginary phantasms . It might be a mere dream which he saw ; the imagery of a melancholick fancy , such as musing men mistake for a reality . Atterbury's Sermons . 4 ...
... fantastick imagery . Taylor . 3. Copies of the fancy ; false ideas ; imaginary phantasms . It might be a mere dream which he saw ; the imagery of a melancholick fancy , such as musing men mistake for a reality . Atterbury's Sermons . 4 ...
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... Fantastick ; full of imagination . Witches are imaginative , and believe oft times they do that which they do not . Bacon's Natural History . Lay fetters and restraints upon the imaginative and fantastick part , because our fancy is ...
... Fantastick ; full of imagination . Witches are imaginative , and believe oft times they do that which they do not . Bacon's Natural History . Lay fetters and restraints upon the imaginative and fantastick part , because our fancy is ...
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