Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Fancy [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

London

Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]

1755

"Love is by fancy led about"

Love is by fancy led about,
From hope to fear, from joy to doubt:
Whom we now a goddess call,
Divinity grac'd in every feature,
Strait's a deform'd, a perjur'd creature;
Love and hate are fancy all.

Government::Rule and Subjection::Rule of Fancy

Reading Johnson's and Bailey's dictionaries

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.

06/24/2004