The chorus of the birds exhilarated him; the sight of the rich loamy meadows, where lambkins sported and cows fed lazily, made him feel that he was not following some chimera of the mind, but tangible realities.
Under this man's influence, right and wrong had appeared to him but a chimera of the imagination.
To fall tooth and nail on the poor books of an enthusiastic dreamer, in which chimera contended with chimera!
Was that not indeed a chimera beyond realisation which would devour generation after generation if one obstinately continued to pursue it?
The land of chimera is the only one in this world that is worth dwelling in, and such is the nothingness of the human lot, that except the being who exists in and by himself, there is nothing beautiful except that which does not exist.
He recognised a something in men, which the Encyclopædists treated as a chimera imposed on the imagination by theologians and others for their own purposes.
And here I am to-day waiting for this girl whose chimera I am, asking nothing better than to pose as the monster in the fresco.
Accordingly he says: “The free will is a chimera of the species, flattered by our pride, and founded upon our ignorance.
The degree of truth contained in the thought of Jesus had prevailed over the chimera which obscured it.
She still cherished the chimera dear to her imagination--the prospective vision of the French people assembling itself in large masses, and deliberately and pacifically giving expression to its wishes.
It was through a desperate desire to conciliate that Mr. Gladstone caught at the Federal chimerain 1893, and produced a scheme which he himself could not defend.
They probably perceived the chimera he was pursuing, and could not be expected to show enthusiasm.
Anti-Christ is the name they 'blasphemously' apply to the actual 'old chimera of a Pope.
The 'masses' of every nation erect chimera into substantial reality, and woe to these who follow not the insane example.
In another year was judged the action: Utrum chimera bombinans in vacuo possit comedere secundas intentiones, and was decided in the affirmative.
A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.
The Chimera gallops through the corridor of the labyrinth, flies across the sea, and holds fast with its teeth to the sailing clouds.
The Sphinx rises up; but Chimera flees in terror of being crushed beneath the stony weight.
But the inward chimera of riotous passions was too fierce for the weak human reason, and while he hated himself he continued still to sin.
It is impossible for society to render more services than it receives, and yet this is the chimera which is being pursued by means of the multiplication of coins, of paper money, &c.
And it is this great chimera which we have placed, for the edification of the people, as a frontispiece to the Constitution.
This was the death of the right to labour, which showed itself as much a chimera as an injustice.
The Whigs and the Tories joined against this intruder, who, being neither, was treated like a monster, or chimera in politics.
How I pity and admire those who pursue the reality of their dream through everything and die content, if only they have once kissed their chimera on the lips!
There is always a tremendous fall in the first step they take, and the passage from their chimera to reality cannot be made without a shock.
How often have they clung to some plausible chimera which seemed to serve their cause, and nursed an artificial ignorance where they feared the discoveries of an impertinent curiosity!
Sometimes I found myself doubting whether it was not all some dream or some strange chimera of my unbalanced brain.
It will not do always to trust to appearances, and I should be foolish indeed to forsake an honourable employment for perhaps a mere chimera of the imagination.
This is some chimera of your own overwrought fancy.
