He proceeds to explain Phantasyor the Phantastic department of the soul, with the phantasms that belong to it.
When he speaks of phantasy as being either calculating or perceptive, we are unable to see in what respect calculating phantasy (which he states not to belong to other animals) differs from an effort of cogitation.
The movements of Memory and of Reminiscence are partly corporeal and partly psychical, just as those of Sensation and Phantasy are.
Memory and phantasy are in some cases so alike, that we cannot distinguish clearly whether what is in our minds is a remembrance or a phantasm.
In the chapter now before us, Aristotle is careful to discriminate phantasy from several other psychological phenomena wherewith it is liable to be confounded.
But other animals have neither; their sensations disappear, they have no endurance; while endurance is the basis both of phantasy and memory.
It is the leg that first suggested the phantasy of flight.
Now these intermediate forms which are impressed upon the common sense in sleep are turned over by it to the phantasy and by the latter to the memory.
It was a new delight and stimulus to Helen to perceive it, and she was soon swept away in much the same kind of nervous delight as her phantasy with the thunderstorm.
And as the rush continued and the fierce music swelled louder, the phantasy took hold of the girl and carried her beyond herself.
Helen felt very much at home in that merry phantasy of her companion's, but she did not say anything; after a moment's waiting the other went on to tell her of something else that pleased her no less.
Ah, what had phantasy In that sad sound to say, Sad as a spirit's wailing?
This fellow, being six foot high, could raise A kind of phantasy proportionate In the then Sovereign of the Russian people, Who measured men as you would do a steeple.
The conflict between phantasy and reason, the insufficiency of the former for the attainment of the rational Idea, makes us conscious of the superiority of reason.
Since a speculative knowledge of the nature of God is impossible, the only task which remains for metaphysics is the removal of improper determinations from that which tradition and phantasy have to say on the subject.
This phantasy was probably suggested by the near proximity of the Governor's red roses, as Pearl stood outside of the window, together with her recollection of the prison rose-bush, which she had passed in coming hither.
That, good sir, is but a phantasy of yours," replied the minister.
The difficulty in this connection seems to hinge about the question of identifying the conditions of the world of phantasy with those of the world of sense.
Reason was all absorbed in a wildest phantasyof apprehension.
What phantasy of old sea-dog or master-mariner had conceived it?
Where tears are hung on every tree; For thus my gloomy phantasy Makes all things weep with me!
According to this the mere impulses of hostility towards the father and the existence of the wish phantasy to kill and devour him may have sufficed to bring about the moral reaction which has created totemism and taboo.
To you it may seem a reality: to me it can never be anything more than a phantasy of intellect run mad on a single point--which, I need hardly remind you, is a by no means uncommon failing of the greatest of minds.
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris~: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension.
One could easily explain it by his openly avowed inclination to occupy himself with the problem of the flight of the bird which would lend to this phantasy an air of predetermined fate.
A second memory content of the phantasy can readily be conjectured from the association of the activity of the mother (of the vulture) with the accentuation of the mouth zone.
The phantasy is composed of the memories of being nursed and of being kissed by the mother.
The scene of the vulture is not a memory of Leonardo, but a phantasy which he formed later, and transferred into his childhood.
Now one may think that if Leonardo's story of the vulture which visited him in his cradle is only a phantasy of later birth, it is hardly worth while giving more time to it.
The Son of Allan can be read without any difficulty, and Phantasy can be read with pleasure.
With a child's hand and with his hot southern phantasy had he noted down all his vices, and owing to the mental excitement caused by the death of his sister and his beloved mother, the despairing boy had portrayed himself as a young miscreant.
The young ones, whose phantasy was still paramount, whose minds were excitable and ductible, they must be filled with enthusiasm for the sweet Madonna and child, and then carry on others through their example.
Memory lays up all the species which the senses have brought in, and records them as a good register, that they may be forthcoming when they are called for by phantasy and reason.
That witches are melancholy, they deny not, but not out of corrupt phantasy alone, so to delude themselves and others, or to produce such effects.
Now the phantasy he moves by mediation of humours; although many physicians are of opinion, that the devil can alter the mind, and produce this disease of himself.
You must see how great would be the advantage to us all of our union being at once completed You should not now allow a phantasy of misplaced generosity to stand in the way of an arrangement which is so desirable.
What a phantasy has jealousy created in his brain But Agatha was right; a man who could speak of her, even in his madness, as he has now spoken, was not worthy of her.
This power in weird and playful phantasy is accompanied with the gift of impersonating or embodying mere abstract qualities or tendencies in characters.
Few men who have by force of native genius gone into allegory or moralised phantasy ever depart out of that fateful and enchanted region.
But that ill dame her former phantasy Pursuing ever with unwearied sprite, Having the keys, repaired nigh every day To the close turret where the prisoner lay.
It is lovely through its dream life, through the unreal phantasy of its past.
In this conjunction the eternal error of the human phantasy in wishing to fly directly toward the perfect and complete revealed itself.
Everywhere the number has taken its place for this purpose and we regret to admit for the history of the sign too the truth of Darwin's words: "Progress in history means the decline of phantasy and the advance of thought.
There was a man who had the phantasy that he himself was a wolf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phantasy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
