Date: 1755
"Love is by fancy led about"
preview | full record— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1766
"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: June, 1793
"In short, in every scene [of Shakespeare] appears, Fancy, queen of hopes and fears."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: June, 1793
"When Pope's warbling numbers glide, / Smooth as the unruffled tide; / When the sylphs and sylphids fly, / Thro' the azure of the sky; / When he sports on Windsor plains, / Fancy still unrivall'd reigns."
preview | full record— Anonymous