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Date: 1755
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Love is by fancy led about"
preview | full record— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
