And this phantastic may be again divided into imitation by the help of instruments and impersonations.
Magic is called a phantastic comedy; it might well be called a phantastic tragedy.
Phantastic thinking begins when the subject fails to apply the test of reality to his mental image and exclude it if it be not adapted to realization.
A phantastic formation is probably also the "Academia Vinciana," the acceptance of which is due to the existence of five or six most clever and intricate emblems with the inscription of the Academy.
This being so, I think there must be a substantial substratum of truth underlying the beliefs, phantastic as they may appear, and yet, are no more phantastic than many of the stories we are asked to give absolute credence to in the Bible.
That the phantastic part in us therefore may be preserved, we employ fables in consequence of this part rejoicing in fables.
But from looking to our souls, they originated as follows: While we are children we live according to the phantasy, but the phantastic part is conversant with figures, and types, and things of this kind.
The phantastic moralist is supreme, jauntily serious, facetiously earnest, most gravely funny in the whole series of Moral Emblems.
But in his stories he leaves the solid earth for a phantastic world of his own.
It is an undoubted fact that the nature about him attracted him, as a poet, far more through its phantastic than through its utilitarian element.
I strain my eyes and recognise my old friend Muenchausen's phantastic beard and moustache.
She sat evening after evening in thisphantastic room.
In lonely dreams her yearning for elegant and phantastic sin had grown to enormity.
Through the twilight an old, phantastic Empire clock announced the hurrying minutes with a hoarse tick.
The phantastic idea that Roman women had to intermarry in the gens owes its existence only to this single passage.
In proportion as the modern class struggle develops and takes definite shape, this phantastic standing apart from the contest, these phantastic attacks on it lose all practical value and all theoretical justification.
He proceeds to explain Phantasy or the Phantastic department of the soul, with the phantasms that belong to it.
The visual hallucinations are especially visions of animals, pictures of corpses, phantastic processions in which dead persons, devils and ghosts swarm.
It might therefore be said that the content and cause of the neurosis lay in the conflict between the phantastic infantile-erotic relation to the father on the one hand, and her love for the husband on the other.
They were not natural flowers, but phantastic ones.
I was once more struck by the fact that certain critics cannot distinguish between the theoretical explanation given by the author, and the phantastic ideas provided by the patient.
The patient pursues in his waking life similar phantastic tendencies about figures, as is seen in the fact already mentioned of the celebration of the 100th birthday.
The subconscious persons only know the patient's phantastic changes of thought very superficially; they do not understand these and cannot answer a single question concerning the situation.
That would obviously be quitephantastic and nonsensical.
It is no cathartic method, abreacting real and phantastic "traumata," with or without hypnosis.
From the examples given of different ecstatic moments it is clear that the medium's consciousness is by no means idle during the trance, but develops a striking and multiplex phantastic activity.
There is a personal sincerity, the direct autobiographical utterance, in even, as you say, the most remote and phantastic of my legends as in the plainest of my words.
The dream thought is now so easy because, during the enormous duration of the evolution of mankind we have been so well trained in just this form of cheap, phantastic explanation by the first agreeable fancy.
From the description of them it appears that they are phantastic appearances, which partly flatter the wish for power, partly other wishes.
It is the nature of the phantastic power to be always in motion, and motion is to it a certain phantasy or perception.
And this is shown by the changes of our dreams in sleep, which changes the phantastic power undergoes, from slight causes assuming every kind of effect and image.
Hushed gasps permeate the solemn air As coral Twilight flaunts its sheen, And vapours wreath phantastic forms Till vaulted domes glow like the noon.
And, as vague forms writhe in despair, A native in phantastic dight Stills Torture's hold in weazened tone, Black incense lifts its wand and flies To haunts where mattoids rave and swear.
And woful runes rake this giant gloom, Phantastic coals lurk in the dust, Blind whelps lie in an onyx bed And ponder words as thumb-screws bleed (Unto the music of king Doom) Each gangrel villains heart of lust.
With these epistles in our hands, is it credible that their writer, or those to whom he wrote, held a multitude of monstrous and phantastic beliefs on this subject?
But when man has ceased to contemplate in nature a rational power guiding and controlling it, the principle of wonder has frequently prompted him to gratify its aspirations by peopling it with a multitude of phantastic creations.
To the monks the devil was continually appearing in the most phantastic forms, and performing the most grotesque miracles.
On the contrary, the idea that spirits can be guilty of such phantastic tricks can only help to throw discredit on the doctrine.
They are alleged to have believed in a demonology of the most phantastic description.
The reader will find between the covers of this book Devils fascinating and fearful, Devils powerful and picturesque, Devils serious and humorous, Devils pathetic and comic, Devils phantastic and satiric, Devils gruesome and grotesque.
The passage presented here shows the phantastic element of the book at its best.
And agonized, weirdly phantastic were the dreams that unrolled like a flaming band beneath his skull.
It was difficult to understand how he managed to live and yet he lived and even had women, as phantastic and unreal and as unlike a human being as himself.
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