Date: 1794
"If our recollection or imagination be not a repetition of animal movements, I ask, in my turn, What is it? You tell me it consists of images or pictures of things. Where is this extensive canvas hung up? or where are the numerous receptacles in which those are deposited? or to what else in the a...
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Date: 1799
"I spent the night ruminating on the future and in painting to my fancy the adventures which I should be likely to meet."
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Date: 1799
"I could not help smiling at the picture which my fancy drew of their anxiety and wonder."
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Date: 1799
Past events may be painted, "in vivid hues" on the [canvas] of the memory
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Date: 1799
"My fancy readily depicted the progress and completion of this tragedy."
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Date: 1800
The fancy may outstrip one's footsteps and be busy picturing and rehearsing
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