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It might have her face, but it was a phantasm—just a scrap of memory dancing on a string—and everything it said and did came from the dreamer’s own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
They pursued that glimmering American phantasm called Justice by attacking legalized discrimination in voting, in public accommodations, and in schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Clearly this forest was a bad place, full of haunting phantasms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It is impossible to perform any act of kindness toward you two. Always the same phantasm! I merely kept all dials at equilibrium in accordance with the will of the Master.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
We would sit at his feet listening to his jíbaro tales of phantasms, talking animals, and enchanted guava trees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
He had become a ghost, a creature that could haunt my nights and see my every move, like the phantasms he told us about when we sat at his feet, listening to his stories. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
By 1975, deeper cognitive problems had emerged: he had visions, phantasms, and voices in his head that told him what to do. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
She dissolved the phantasm like a moth at sunup, and slipped into its place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
She wasn’t Sarai here, but this absurd tame phantasm of her mother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Its question is: How does literature take us out of our delusions, our world “of violent phantasms,” and bring us to “a true living world?” J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z
In both, a camera's exclusionary lens transmuted acute spiritual decay into a deceptive phantasm of glorious moral uplift. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z
It broke all the rules of things natural, and introduced endless possibilities, unknown worlds that shifted shapes and light, creating myriad phantasms of protoplasmic gobbleygook. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
This is a precancellation: a case of institutions running scared from phantasms, recoiling from their missions, assuming that their public is too clueless to look and think. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z
For as forward-thinking as it’s easy to feel, just as many of us succumbed to phantasms of inclusion that lacked widespread public support. The pop-culture progress myth 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z
This kind of hallucinatory visual phenomenon is one of a host of well-known phantasms. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z
Glasses on, reality — or at least a truer phantasm. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z
The phantasms and the rages besetting a very old man, losing touch with reality, aching to be reunited with the ghost of his beloved wife. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z
The book uses the idea of “thought-transference” to explain the phenomena of ghost-seeing and compares internal dreams to “the externalized ‘phantasms of the living’ which impress waking percipients.” This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z
Then there’s Blade Runner, whose dystopia merely exaggerates the prevalent civic phantasms of 1982 Los Angeles – smog, overpopulation, overdevelopment, acid rain, traffic, immigrants – until they become a single nightmare. Battle of Los Angeles: San Andreas just the latest film to kick the crap out of LA 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z
Glints of that lost world haunt the poetry Schubert set in the shimmering of the moon on desolate nights, the beauty of sun-filled landscapes, or the specters of dead girls and other Gothic phantasms. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z
"Come and see me after the show," the cruel phantasm rasps and I wake up screaming and drenched in sweat. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z
Kitaro’s father is a phantasm with an eyeball for a head. Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z
For the most part, her scenes with him are written and staged precisely as you would if she were going to be revealed as a phantasm or a dream. How I Met My Mother: Don Draper's Oedipal Farewell Tour 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z
Each of her images reflects the scale of its subject, scientific truth plus the haunting magic of a phantasm. 'All the Flowers' turns blooms in LACMA artworks into a photogram bouquet of blue 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z
Brodovitch commissioned photographers who abstracted and stylized the fashions of the day, and in his own work, above all the renowned photobook “Ballet,” he blurred and slurred bodies into grainy phantasms. The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z
A ghost-hunting team was leading a six-hour tour of the hotel, which is said to be home to hazy phantasms and glowing orbs. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z
Snyder, the man behind the Thermopylae phantasm 300, as well as the flawed but raggedly affecting riot-grrrl head trip Sucker Punch, is an ambitious visual stylist. Review: Superheroes Duke It Out in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z
I mean it really hits him: He’s entered by a formless phantasm with a baby’s cry. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z
Musicians in the era of recording, amplification and synthesis concoct phantasms in the studio and figure out how to simulate them onstage, making music that feels larger than life. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z
In “O, Earth,” Casey Llewellyn’s whimsical, politically impassioned riff on Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” phantasms are present, and at least one of them is angry. Review: ‘O Earth,’ a Riff on ‘Our Town’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z
The ghosts seem to be challenging the viewer to decide whether they are mere memories or phantasms of a more substantial sort — or whether, in the end, it really matters. White Paint, Chocolate, and Postmodern Ghosts 2011-01-30T02:17:14Z
It’s a digital phantasm, a matrix of synthetic sounds enfolding countless tracks of Kelela’s vocals. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
By telling ourselves a story about "how ten billion people can live well on the planet", we can exorcise the Malthusian phantasm. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z
This is a story, after all, in which dreams and phantasms are kinder and more sensical than the random brutality of the concrete world. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z
Like some sun-drenched phantasm, all of cinema comes alive in Cannes: its serious ambitions, bottom-line commerce and crass spectacle. From 'Gatsby' to Gosling, a preview of Cannes 2013-05-13T14:48:13Z
At right is a veiled parishioner, blurred, by the camera’s long exposure time, into a phantasm. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
The song arrives in a swirl of electronic sound and vanishes in a distant echo, like a phantasm. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z
The body is barely there, more phantasm than person, and at first you might mistake it for a shadow. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ Is a Ghostly Play 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z
Mr. King’s earlier books were full of phantasms and demons, but he grows ever more adept at rooting his dark thoughts and toughest struggles in reality. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z
In shallow focus, the doll becomes a candy-colored phantasm, with green eyes and red hair as bright as her lavender lips are faint. Review | In the galleries: A confection of a show that draws on the richness of Vermeer 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z
And who would want to leave out those dance-crazed phantasms, who are often thought of as exacting vengeance on men? This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z
This dependency on fighting imaginary phantasms — which are responsible for eroding our "values" and "culture" by making America browner, less Christian, more constitutionally equal and ever less heterosexual — is what unites GOP base voters. America's mainstream media still wants to save the GOP — but that's impossible 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z
And before that, I was reading accounts of specters and phantasms at a home built in the early 1800s. As local news fades, no more ‘first rough draft of history’ for many communities | Op-Ed 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z
Like most of the fears that animate the right, that's a phantasm, propped up to keep their adrenaline coursing and their rational faculties shut down. Trump wants Americans to think society is an apocalyptic wasteland: Mass shootings help him 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z
Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” begins when a faltering academic conjures up an imaginary phantasm of the early-20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes. Review | A failing academic tries to retain her optimism in ‘The Guest Lecture’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z
In the past, these phantasms were usually cause for amusement or bafflement more than concern. Germany just averted its own Jan. 6, and maybe the Fourth Reich 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z
Mostly she stares pensively into the middle distance, lost in the phantasms of memory. Review: Frederick Wiseman's gorgeous 'A Couple' brings the words of Sophia Tolstoy to life 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
He suggested that his political cult members should enter into a lethal blood pact and fight an existential battle against the phantasm of "critical race theory" as proof of their loyalty: Donald Trump, Michael Flynn call for violence — they're not kidding, but the media doesn't care 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z
In 2014, Ohio shortened early voting and ended Golden Week, citing the standard phantasm of voter fraud. Opinion | Congress Needs to Defend Vote Counting, Not Just Vote Casting 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z
Mr. Trump’s lawyers, who seemingly rotate as frequently and stumblingly as those imaginary football stars and coaches he told me he would steal 38 years ago, have fabricated the useful phantasm of “unconstitutionality.” Opinion | Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z
The book wields dreamy anecdotes and complex neuroscience to try to grasp the importance of these phantasms. A Complete Guide to Birds, the Reason We Dream and Other New Science Books 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z
Or, is congressional power just an edifice, a phantasm, which gives the illusion that the people wield power through representative government? Reporter's Notebook: George Floyd unrest, coronavirus show limits to Congress' power 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z
Chess may be a rigorously logical game, but one also prone to phantasms and hallucinations in the heat of battle. Halloween hallucinations at the chessboard 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z
I pray for murder sometimes because violence is a familiar phantasm — a ghoul you loathe, sure, but know well enough to maybe share a laugh with it at lunch. Opinion | I Pray for Murder (Sometimes) 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z
A hellish phantasm of a doe-human hybrid that will definitely stalk and kill you in a dream tonight? Sally Rooney’s ‘sensuous lips’: why male book critics diminish female writers 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z
“We wanted to pay tribute to that theatricality and that sense of phantasm. … You’re watching it and you’re asking yourself, ‘Is this real? ‘This can’t happen on “Pose”’: How TV’s queerest show made its most emotional episode yet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z
Human reasoning “is the only oracle which god has given us to determine between what really comes from him, & the phantasms of a disordered or deluded imagination,” Jefferson wrote. Saving Thomas Jefferson’s soul 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z
But it would be nice to think that centuries of advances in science and education have made people less prey to phantasms and falsehoods. Opinion | Are we becoming too stupid to govern ourselves? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z
The phantasms and abstractions reside merely in our descriptions of the behavior of that world, not in the world itself. Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm. Bill Hader Kills 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z
Lurking beneath some of this sexist atmosphere is the phantasm of sociobiology. The Secret History of Women in Coding 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z
“Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the commonplace.” Review: Government shutdown hits the Long Beach Opera stage, but 'The Black Cat' goes on 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z
They're all too familiar with various phantasms depicting Christmas past, Christmas present and, yes, Christmas future on Capitol Hill. Government shutdown threat looms over Capitol Hill's Christmas season 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z
As she flew, she noticed that the simulator not only allowed her to move fluidly through space but also offered up a universe of digital phantasms: objects without solidity, weight, or mass. How to Control a Machine with Your Brain 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z
Piers Morgan: A dimly remembered TV phantasm who serves as a sentient justification for the American Revolution, Morgan hosted a show on CNN years ago before poor ratings led to his cancellation. Overrated/Underrated: Feed your soul with 'The War & Treaty,' and are we sure 'Haunting of Hill House' is good? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z
Not only that: He also finds himself in the unsettling position of being the designated villain of this anti-globalization backlash, his Judaism and career in finance rendering him a made-to-order phantasm for reactionaries worldwide. George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z
In another paper, Strohminger and her colleagues called the idea of the true self a “hopeful phantasm,” albeit a possibly useful one. 10 Things You Don't Know About Yourself 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z
As Susan Owens highlights in her new cultural history of ghosts, phantasms and spirits have assumed many guises and taken up numerous causes over the millennia. The evolution of the ghost 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z
The equine phantasm holds a sword in one hand while he dangles what looks like a lobster over the face of the sleeping man. Perspective | Built to soothe the troubled mind: Exhibit examines history of St. Elizabeths 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z
One thinks of earlier right-wing red phantasms, such as men marrying their pets, or of the Onion headline from 2004, “Massachusetts Supreme Court Orders All Citizens to Gay Marry.” North Carolina Republicans vs. N.C.A.A. Basketball 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z
This phantasm of emasculation was at the heart of the violence. Learning from the Slaughter in Attica 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
The problem these laws are designed to prevent – voter fraud – is a phantasm, but they do achieve their intended effect: voter suppression. It’s about damn time: Obama’s finally trying to fix an American disgrace by backing a national holiday for election day 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z
By 1975, he had visions, phantasms, and voices in his head that told him what to do. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z
The villains are not supernatural phantasms but, most often, men who have invited them to a fraternity party or struck up a conversation in a bar. ‘The Hunting Ground’ Gives a Harrowing Look at College Rape 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z
“We may not see the benefits that folks were hoping to see. . . . The whole notion of commonality, which was so attractive, is more and more a phantasm.” What happens when the Common Core becomes less ... common? 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z
Dispersal is the issue, in my opinion, not the phantasm. How Can John W. Henry Apply Red Sox Success To The Boston Globe? Go Big. 2013-10-31T14:27:00Z
The modern launch event is a sort of information phantasm, ethereal and abstract. Xbox One: we need time to figure this out 2013-05-22T17:09:09Z
Lunar gravity may turn the tides in our distant oceans, but the moon’s own seas and lakes and bays were—and always will be—mere phantasms. Earth's Great Gift to the Moon: Water 2013-05-10T10:55:00Z
While Jodie is still assisting Dawkins, a government paranormal research facility accidentally unleashes a group of furious and psychotic phantasms, which murder a lab full of scientists and their would-be military rescuers. Beyond: Two Souls – preview 2013-03-22T10:34:50Z
Around you, phantasms of people and pets lost. The Death of "Near Death": Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren t Seeing It 2012-12-05T15:18:38.800Z
Tristan says it is "a heterogeneous grouping of diverse informal entities... more a sort of collective phantasm than a real group". The underground art rebels of Paris 2012-11-23T15:31:11Z
Like the deposed Prospero, manipulating the reality of his island prison and populating his loneliness with phantasms, he fashioned a monstrous creature that would serve him in the years to come. The Better Bonobos of Our Nature 2012-06-19T23:15:04.947Z
Assuredly," cried Lady Corbet, "I  ought to discredit my senses, which tell me it is Talton who addresses me; or, you, perhaps, my good friend, are affected by the phantasms of your new ward! The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z
I find much more simple the explanation that the phenomena are caused by the presence and the action of an independent being,—a spirit, phantasm, or elemental. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z
Finally the whole awkward device for getting the curse of Prometheus before the reader is consummated by raising up the phantasm of Jupiter which repeats the curse, word for word. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z
Their so-called gods were phantasms of the Divine, in which the wiser of them scarcely even pretended to believe. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z
Gods and devils, Ormuzd and Ahriman, and other phantasms of the sky, may all be put on a microscopic slide and their struggles noted. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
Do epileptics, in their phantasms, see orderly systems of truth, which are carried into effect in their days of health and sanity? Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z
Wolfius is of opinion that every dream originates in some sensation, yet the independent energies of the mind are sufficiently displayed in the preservation of the continued phantasms of the imagination. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
But, at least and lowest, I would have you a Population abhorring phantasms;—abhorring unveracity in all things; and in your ‘amusements,’ which are voluntary and not compulsory things, abhorring it most impatiently of all.... Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z
Perhaps nothing; the triumph so short but bright had no doubt become such phantasm as an unnoticeable yesterday to one whose future is fraught with expectation. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z
She would have smiled at the phantasm of the impossible. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z
Left to herself, and in her correspondence, she was much the victim of Lord Bacon's idols of the cave, or self-deceived by her own phantasms.... Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z
Our mind had been predisposed by fear to receive any terrific impression, and most probably these alarming phantasms will be of a chimerical and an extravagant nature. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Each phantasm becomes a centre of love and hate. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z
In addition to all other faults, I hold that this philosophy, or phantasm of philosophy, is eminently retrogressive. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z
Come hither, beloved stranger, and fear not; I am no phantasm, no deceitful shadow: I am the Elf of this grove, the tenant of the oak, under whose leafy boughs thou hast often rested. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z
The last species of magic is the thaumaturgic, begetting illusory phenomena; by this art the Magi produced their phantasms and other marvels.’ Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z
That he should have remembered dates, and that the phantasm of the she-mountebank might at the same time have struck his fancy, were two associations by no means improbable. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
And as for the real Napoleon, what was the magic by which he was able to call such phantasms from the vasty deep? The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z
So far, indeed, as the evidence from apparitions went, the series seemed continuous from phantasms of the living to phantasms of the dead. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
We have dreams; may not our whole life be a dream? or more exactly: is there a sure criterion of the distinction between dreams and reality? between phantasms and real objects? The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
And in the companionship of this phantasm I would pass happy days, until on arrival in port it would dissolve or be replaced by another. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z
The first are termed ocular phantasms or spectres; the latter, ocular transmutations or illusions. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
In her terror, she never thought, as did her companions, of death, nor of witches and phantasms; it was the living who disturbed her. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z
Thus phantasms of the dead receive a new meaning from observations of the phenomena occurring between living men. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
But are there any phantasms of the dead? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z
What black phantasms rose before her from the depths of the waters to trace in her fair brow the deep furrows with which it was corrugated? The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z
He maintains that none of these phantasms can prevail unless they arise from this previous sensation. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
The longer these phantasms continued to visit me, the more frequently did they return, while at the same time they increased in number about four weeks after they had first appeared. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z
Sometimes the phantasm is seen as nearly as can be ascertained at the time of death. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
In America "atheism" was never anything but the besom which again and again has cleared the human mind of phantasms represented in outrages on honest thinkers. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z
Above his head floated the huge black plume of the smoke, emitted by the smoke-stack of the engine, and this, as it disappeared in the atmosphere, in dying made a thousand strange and monstrous phantasms. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z
Illusions, phantasms, Utopian dreams, perished in the light of his large common sense. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z
All evidences of mortal life are only as the phantasms of hallucination. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z
The projection of the phantasm, if I may so term it, seems a matter wholly automatic on the agent's part, as automatic and meaningless as a dream. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
Paine's fidelity to his unanswered argument was fatal to the consecrated phantasm. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z
These phantasms, as they fled away, rolling along just above the ground, seemed also to say mournfully, Alone! alone! The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z
Look around:— Earth spirits and phantasms hear you talk unmoved, As if ye were red clay again and talked! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
For one awful moment she feared that this phantasm might become a reality; and yet she knew, as well as she knew that she lived, that he would not let it be so. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z
How much of consciousness, if any, may be felt at the point where the excursive phantasm is seen, we cannot say. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
If this statement were to stand unqualified, by so much would the reality and respectability of phantasms be discredited. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z
Then the phantasm faded out, as it had done before. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z
Down the beast shall shiver,—slain amid the taming,— And, by Life essential, the phantasm Death expire. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
So vehement and irregulated a passion founded upon mere phantasms of the imagination, was in itself strong presumptive proof of an unsound mind. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z
Phantasmogenetic centre.—A point in space apparently modified by a spirit in such a way that persons present near it perceive a phantasm. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
Both young men mention Friday as the day of their first decided success, but they were experimenting on previous days, including Tuesday, when the young lady writes she first saw Cleave’s phantasm. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z
A phantasm of our dreams will appear to have a mind—a mind to be annoying, as a rule. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z
Strange phantasms of pale shadow! there are twelve. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
The whole thing must be a mere phantasm, the outcome of all the troubled thought which had occupied him for so long. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z
The evidence, then, leading me thus unresisting along, has led me to this main difference from our early treatment of veridical phantasms. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
It remains to show the interesting relations which these subjects bear to hallucinations in general, and especially to phantasms and apparitions. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z
And yet, when we are awake, we do not believe that the phantasm was, like the appearances of people in waking life, representative of a private world to which we have no direct access. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z
While images more human—— Eve.How he stands, That phantasm of a man—who is not thou! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
"And the threat—which inspires these phantasms?" he said, as the musical tones ceased, and the murmur of the sea came up to them in their eyrie. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z
Where experimental thought-transference is concerned—even where the commoner types of coincidental phantasms are concerned—the second formula seems a needless and unprovable variation on the first. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
A work treating of hypnotism, automatism, trance, and phantasms. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z
The distinction, like other Vedic attempts at drawing a line among the floating phantasms of belief, is not kept up with much persistency. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z
That phantasm, there, Presents a lion, albeit twenty times As large as any lion—with a roar Set soundless in his vibratory jaws, And a strange horror stirring in his mane. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
He now leads the actual life; his wonder and his sorrow are drawn from the reflection that his fellow-men remain in the region of phantasm. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z
Here is a case where the phantasm was visible to several persons at the same time. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
Even animals, especially horses and dogs, have given unmistakable evidence—by crouching, trembling, and fright—of perceiving the same phantasms that have been seen by persons who were present with them. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z
Rid thyself of all exploded and worn out doctrines--cast off the whole puerile tissue of phantasms and visions of crude ages, which thou callest Revelation! King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z
O bleak sound, O shadow of sound, O phantasm of thin sound! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z
For men may readily be convinced of the weakness of an image, but not of the emptiness of a phantasm. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z
In other words, the mother projected a phantasm of her dead daughter to the mind of her son. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
Auriol's brain reeled, and he pressed his hand to his eyes, to exclude these phantasms from his sight. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z
One of the most familiar of this form of dreams is what has been called a phantasm of the dying. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
The more learned form “phantasy,” as also such words as “phantom” and “phantasm,” is chiefly confined to visionary imaginings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z
Perhaps the operator of the magic lantern which projected these phantasms on the sky-screen was the vizier of the Thirst King—striving to lure the unwary to a terrible doom. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z
Having dealt with phantasms of persons at the point of death, I now propose to deal with phantasms of persons already dead. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
“Not so,” said my father, “it is a phantasm—a spirit resembling your earthly Helena; perhaps some cunning Syren who has assumed her form to allure you to herself.” In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z
These are the true phantasms which may occur to the sense of hearing and other senses as well as to that of vision. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
We all laughed at Winnie’s phantasms, but there were none of us so brave as to care to visit that room after nightfall. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z
Today’s Groupon helps keep teeth in mouths and out of the hands of maniacal, winged phantasms.” Funny or Die: Groupon?s Fate Hinges on Words 2011-05-28T17:14:49Z
Occasionally there is a curious variant, when the phantasm is auditory and not visible. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
His night phantasms treat of what is, to man, of all things the most genuinely alarming—his own shadow. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z
The process by which "phantasms" are produced, is the reverse of that to which the vision of actual external objects is due. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
Lance turned toward Jessie in a bewildered way, gazing at her as if he expected her to say or do something which would dispel the phantasm that was growing so like a reality. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z
And so she had begun to dislike her gaunt neighbour, with her visions and phantasms. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z
To those who have carefully studied the evidence there is, however, little doubt that telepathy does afford an adequate explanation of certain well-attested phenomena, such as phantasms of the living or dying person. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z
How was I to separate the facts from the phantasms—lacking the key to the whole enigma. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z
Its full voluptuous beauty, he recalled confusedly; dimmed by the shadows which clung to it even in the light, it looked vaporous, evanescent, the phantasm of a lorelei riding the sea-foam. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z
Look at the foul phantasm straight in the eyes, and it will melt into so much empty air; and then, 'being gone,' you are 'a man again.' The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z
Over it, to his eye, hung, like the sombre and glowing phantasms of a cloudy sunset, the story of the romance, and the follies and the crimes of generations of the Verneys of Malory. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z
Life is an illusion, a show, a phantasm: well then, that is settled, and I belong to that section of the illusion called London, the seventeenth century, and woody Warwickshire! The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z
The Populist movement died, but this phantasm once evoked, of a black man poised at the centre of the party see-saw, continued to hover at the beck of its creators until again wanted. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z
I was conquered—the temptations of the strange life, with its sorceries and phantasms, which had so long enveloped me, were swept away like a ghost-procession at dawn. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z
Our relationship to sports figures is ugly enough: We live through these unknowable phantasms, only to hate them when they let us down. Twitter, the athlete killer 2011-01-31T23:05:00Z
It was in a green wilderness noted for its hay or grass and butchering of beasts, that a phantasm approached the female—and so on. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z
They tend to shade away, on one side, into the denizens of the House of Hades—phantasms of the dead. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z
The shimmering phantasm that is Martian life helps explain why the exploration of Mars soaks up more effort and expenditure than any other branch of planetary science. Methane on Mars: Now you don't... 2010-12-29T10:57:07Z
There are similar phantasms in Lincoln Schatz’s shimmering video, which shows a man using a compass and other navigational tools to chart a journey. | Westchester: Maps for Navigating to a New Perspective 2010-12-05T04:30:00Z
Both were driven by ambition and high-mindedness to chase the health care phantasm. 2010-01-21T07:25:00Z
It struck into strange devious tracks, and often was deluded by phantasms of old superstition glorified by a new spirit. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
As far as psychical research studies report of these phantasms it approaches the realm of ‘the Fairy Queen Proserpine’. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z
He speaks not, but by images and phantasms pictured on the crystal.—Now listen, for thy story cometh. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico
The phantasm is called coincidental if it represents a known and distant person who is later found to have been dying or in some other crisis at the moment of the percipient’s experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"
Yes, when you have told me that this is some nightmare, some phantasm—a lie! To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3
A pantheon of dim phantasms or abstractions will not promise more than a numb spectral future to the human shade. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
When I was ailing in my youth I felt almost the assurance of vision that beneath this temporary phantasm world was the real world—the enduring world of the Life Everlasting. The Wonderful Visit
A murmur of voices, followed by the sound of retreating steps, was heard; and in the silence which ensued, his fancy became more disordered, presenting him phantasms still more peculiar. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico
Then he manipulated the blinds and the curtain till a clear, soft light, melting gradually into the surrounding greyer tones, fell on the wood-work, and Lady Betty stood illuminated with a suggestion of airy phantasm. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel
Dreadful as this thought was, I was tortured by others infinitely worse; by phantasms that the future might well convert into horrid realities. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec
Guided, imposed upon, entirely bewitched by religious phantasms, he gropes about in the darkness of superstition. The Progressionists, and Angela.
If so, he was fully answered by a name which made this God the one reality, in a world where all is a phantasm except what derives stability from Him. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
It was not without many feelings of dismay that he plunged among the ruins; for his imagination converted each shattered block into a living phantasm. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico
Miguel's cousin Enrique had at last succeeded in embracing the divine phantasm of glory in pursuit of which so many men run in vain. Maximina
But from some inexplicable train of thought, Sidney's mind was filled with fancies, which followed one another like the phantasms of a fever, and produced a depression of spirits alarming to himself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847
My purpose is to accustom the weakling to the atmosphere of enlightenment which is fatal to all religious phantasms. The Progressionists, and Angela.
Why should I be the one to clear away these senseless beliefs in phantasms, you say? Bye-Ways
Every sling of his sledge reopened the edge Of wounds that were healed long ago; And from each livid chasm leaped forth a phantasm Of passion, of sin, or of woe. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.
But Francis, in the vacant hall, Stood silent under dreary weight,— 85 A phantasm, in which roof and wall Shook, tottered, swam before his sight; A phantasm like a dream of night! The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8)
One of those wonderful visions, or phantasms, as you may call it, that supplement our life and withdraw us from the actual world, seized me. Waldfried A Novel
The body of a reptile—a wild phantasm of distorted dreams—was supported by short, quivering wings. Brood of the Dark Moon
This was sickly phantasm, the very waters breathing decay. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday
In one Country we have seen lava-torrents of fever-frenzy envelop all things; Government succeed Government, like the phantasms of a dying brain. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time
In that state of semiconsciousness, I experienced a phantasm. Stamped Caution
She told herself that Maurice was right—that her nerves had played her false, and that the appearances had been a mere phantasm of her imagination. A Life Sentence A Novel
In the retrospect it was all a mist—a blurred canvas—a confused phantasm. Leonore Stubbs
She tried to reason with herself, as a neurosthene, aware of his infirmity, may reason with the phantasm which he himself has evoked. Eden An Episode
And where it burned, a rose inurned, Red in the vasty sea, The phantasm of the dread above Sits in immensity. Undertones
She was subconciously aware that she could conceive and portray a more extreme phase of emotion than this present evolution, but she deliberately avoided the phantasm. Ancestors A Novel
The two faces were quite close, the longing lips had almost met—nothing could hinder, nothing could save; the phantasms did not know that she was watching them. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome
A flash went through him, like lightning in a sunless sky, conjuring up in him strange phantasms. Contemporary Russian Novelists
But this was a phantasm that no argument could coerce. Eden An Episode
I thought that I had given some attention to about all the isms that ever existed, and that this was only another phantasm of some religionist lost in the labyrinths of mental hallucination. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896
Outward things are to him phantasms; the impressions they make on the mind are phantasms too. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
The man's phantasm had come to her awake. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome
The woman, upon opening the room, saw a luminous phantasm, which greatly terrified her, and heard, in a deep threatening tone, the words—"At thy peril be gone!" Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed
From this general view of the subject, it is concluded that Ideas, the residuary phantasms of visual perception, cannot directly constitute or become the immediate instruments of Thought. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence
In search of protection from such worrying phantasms I finally opened my eyes and turned toward the open window. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19
As to Doubts the actual existence of the visible world. the external world, we cannot tell how far it is a phantasm, how far a reality, for our senses possess no trustworthy criterion of truth. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
He ran his great, strong, copper-freckled hands through his fiery hair and stood with face transfigured, as the face of one staring at some phantasm. In the Heart of a Fool
I shall mention another feature still more wonderful: That you may not believe that he will be born a phantasm. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2
To endow these insubstantial and reflected phantasms with some activity and mimic play, a theory of the association of Ideas has been erected, without having previously established that they are capable of such confederation. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence
Confused phantasms crowded his brain; and when he strove to come to a decision, to find solid ground somewhere, everything vanished, he lay powerless, bound hand and foot, and Satan's self appeared deriding him. Skipper Worse
It was not until a later period that allegorical phantasms, such as Death, and Sleep, and Dreams were introduced, and still later when the whole system was affected by Lydian, Phrygian, Assyrian, and Egyptian ideas. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
Thus when Grant Adams banished black powder from the district, he expected the whole phantasm of dawn to usher in the perfect day for the miners. In the Heart of a Fool
Many of the faces we see around us every day are, I believe, attendant spirits, and phantasms of every species, that have adopted physical form for some specific purpose. Byways of Ghost-Land
On those solemn occasions when we address our prayers to the Divine Source, can these effusions of grateful feeling, and humble petition, be conveyed in phantasms? On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence
All the shapes of human beings that passed and circled around her were as phantasms. The Broom-Squire
The marches of the legions and the voyages of merchants made all these phantasms vanish. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
The examples there are fit, viz. the light of the Sunne, the phantasms of the soul. Democritus Platonissans
To this phantasm the Germans have given the name POLTERGEIST, whilst in former of my works I have classified it as a Vagrarian Order of ELEMENTAL. Byways of Ghost-Land
The excitation of the phantasm associated with the perception, and the recollection of the perception without the phantasm, by the attribution of a name, is, for the present, purposely concealed. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence
The vagueness and etherealness of a phantasm, however beautiful it may be, can not compete with what is palpable and visible to the senses. Pepita Ximenez
Is this world an illusion, a phantasm of the imagination? History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
"Spooks" means ghosts, sprites, goblins, and other such phantasms. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
Would that my experience of the forest phantasms had been half so entrancing. Byways of Ghost-Land
He could doubt the existence of the external world, and treat it as a phantasm. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
"Well, where under the sun, moon and stars have you been?" he demanded, taking the chance that this phantasm might be flesh and blood. The Quality of Mercy
By the use of opium and other drugs which can blunt our sensibility to passing events, these phantasms may be made to emerge. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat, and during this period there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales
"Then," I replied thoughtfully, "it is just possible that the headless dog was the phantasm of the lady herself, or, at least, of one of her personalities!" Byways of Ghost-Land
False images, or phantasms, are immediately derived from no real object. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
Scared by a phantasm of their own creation, they have deserted the only position in which it is possible to defend religion at all. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion
His eyes stared wonderingly at the grotesque face like a lingering phantasm of fevered dreams. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930
He had frenzies of tears, his nights were sleepless reviews of his folly in throwing her away, and vain phantasms of her eyes and lips. Dreamers of the Ghetto
I was somewhat shocked, as indeed I always am after an encounter with the superphysical, but not so much shocked as I should have been had the phantasms been bigger. Byways of Ghost-Land
If she entered a solitary or a half-darkened room the phantasm lurked in the shadowy corners or met her face to face. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend
Some imaginative children amuse themselves with these phantasms, and then, if encouraged to relate them, will constantly transgress the boundary line between truth and falsehood, and weave their little romance. The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases
Worse, you would destroy a man’s happiness for a 174 morbid phantasm. The Hound From The North
They despised vulgar apparitions, but discussed such abstruse problems as phantasms of the living, thought transference, will power, hypnotism, and clairvoyance. The Madcap of the School
A faint, sickly sound of sucking caused my friend to start forward with an exclamation of horror, and as he did so, the phantasm glided away from the perambulator and disappeared among the trees. Byways of Ghost-Land
I could conceive then how the brain, excited by fear, or stimulated by emotion, might multiply these phantasms, moulding them into the likeness of objects and beings that never had any existence in reality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
In the face of that, what was the worth of anything he should recollect now, that he should not discard it as a mere phantasm, for her sake? Somehow Good
A stone must be thrown at this phantasm to make it vanish. Jewish Literature and Other Essays
Veronica considered that they had entered unwittingly into a psychic circle, and encountered either a thought-form that had materialized, or a phantasm of the living. The Madcap of the School
It is, by the way, an error to think that different types of phantasms can only appear in certain colours—colours that are peculiar to them. Byways of Ghost-Land
One of the ancient philosophies maintained that all Nature is but the phantasm of our senses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
Self-control, then, in order to be effective, must be exercised upon the thoughts and feelings, especially upon the imagination, which fills so largely with its phantasms and day-dreams our else unoccupied hours. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
But some small gleams from the starlight night came through, making phantasms out of ordinary things, which unseen were horrible enough, and half seen choked her heart with terror. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories
Dazzled—amazed—our eyes, half-blinded, fail, While sweeps the phantasm past our gliding sail. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
The phantasm in the shape of a horse I am inclined to attribute to the once actually material horse and not to elementals. Byways of Ghost-Land
Blossoming orchards and thriving crops he knew to be the ephemeral phantasms of the dreamer. The Wall Between
O, what would not I give for the discovery of some anodyne which would lay these horrible phantasms. Select Temperance Tracts
What, then, is the modern synonym for the "ideas," "representations," "phantasms," and "species," which the theory in question declares to be vicarious of real objects? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
It is, then, one of these Sirens whom Dante takes as the phantasm or deceitfulness of riches; but note further, that she says it was her song that deceived Ulysses. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
From the fact that in all probability a very sensuous, animal-minded woman once lived in the house, I am led to suppose that this may be her phantasm—or—one only of her many phantasms. Byways of Ghost-Land
Was it all but the floating phantasm of delirium? Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories
And it is so; few species of literature are more truly dull than reports of phantasms. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Therefore, as I have suggested elsewhere, in some instances, but emphatically not in all, what were thought to have been werwolves may only have been phantasms of the dead, or Elementals. Werwolves
Ulysses has now reached the Greek limit, Oriental phantasms will rise unless there be a speedy return to the reality, to the realm of sense. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
The phantasms of vegetable life are everywhere, though discernible only to the few of us. Byways of Ghost-Land
The most exalted of human intelligences cannot form one mental phantasm uncompounded of this visible world. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error, Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
And that it was haunted—haunted not only by werwolves but by all sorts of ghastly phantasms—I have no doubt. Werwolves
The Cyclops was generated at Ilium, and is a colossal phantasm of the spirit which prompted the attack on the Ciconians. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
Something is coming, and, if that something is not the phantasm of him whom I believe is earthbound, whose phantasm is it? Byways of Ghost-Land
A worse man would have accommodated himself more speedily to the altered conditions when he found that he had pursued a phantasm. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
Case No. 2.—A cave in Wales haunted by the phantasm of a horse, though, whether the real spirit of the horse or merely an Elemental I cannot say. Werwolves
The horrid phantasm is the true image of the destroyer of the race. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
If these phantasms were but tricks of the imagination, then imagination would stop at nothing. Byways of Ghost-Land
Pshaw! he was the unconscious slave of a superstition—a phantasm, a gingerbread superstition! A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
He wanted to tell himself that the brief titillation, so clearly a phantasm of his own making, had not been real. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
Hence on man's physical dissolution there may emanate from him a host of phantasms, each with a shape most fitting the personality it represents. Werwolves
Now the reader should be informed that every one of these unities has been violently attacked and proclaimed to be a sheer phantasm. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
Thus each representative phantasm, on the dissolution of the material brain, would be either earth-bound or promoted to the higher spiritual plane. Byways of Ghost-Land
The supposed impossibility of combining the different sense-data which are regarded as appearances of the same "thing" to different people has made it seem as though these "sensibilia" must be regarded as mere subjective phantasms. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
My idea of the affair, sir, is that he has not the mere phantasm of such a thing. The Herapath Property
The property of metamorphosis, in this branch of lycanthropy, is not deemed the gift of a national deity, but either of the Occult Powers in general or of some particular local phantasm. Werwolves
I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
Of course, these charnel prophets are not the only phantasms that "possess" furniture. Byways of Ghost-Land
I would no more attack it than I would attack an isosceles triangle, a vacuum, or Hume's "phantasm floating in a void." The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is the mind can be employed about in thinking. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
As an example of a lupine phantasm representing the personality of the werwolf, I will quote a case, reported to me some years ago as having occurred in Estonia, on the shores of the Baltic. Werwolves
This would reduce the life of Christ to a mere phantasm and rob it of its entire historical significance. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour
On another New Year's Eve she saw the phantasm of a dog, to which she had been deeply attached, enter her bedroom and jump on her bed, just as it had done during its lifetime. Byways of Ghost-Land
My sweetest Indian, here, Here will I kneel, for thou redeemed hast My life from too thin breathing: gone and past Are cloudy phantasms. Endymion A Poetic Romance
As a consequence, men have turned their backs on welfare and reality, in order to pursue beauty, glory, poetry, and dithyrambic rhetoric, pleasure, fame, adventure, and phantasms. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
We are phantasmsphantasms beyond the power of either Heaven or Hell. Werwolves
I was like a man suddenly roused half-way through a vivid entrancing dream, unable still to believe that the real is true and the phantasm not the only substance. The King's Mirror
Whenever I see a barrow, tumulus or druidical, circle, I scent the probability of phantasmsphantasms of a peculiar sort. Byways of Ghost-Land
And when the curl was held towards her, it seemed for an instant like a mocking phantasm of the lock she herself had cut to wind with one of her own five years ago. Romola
The phantasms were dictated to them upon authority in the shape of dogmas of world philosophy and precepts of conduct. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
This would account for the fact that places where cataleptics and idiots have died are often haunted by semi and by wholly animal types of phantasms. Werwolves
When we sit down and reflect we are apt to become the prey of a curious delusion; pain seems to us the only reality, pleasure a phantasm or a dream. The King's Mirror
This phantasm is believed to haunt localities that have witnessed crimes, and also to foretell catastrophes. Byways of Ghost-Land
God embosomed him in his spiritual presence; Christ was to him not a cold and distant phantasm, but a warm and intimate friend. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm
Extremes of realism and phantasm meet in the folk drama. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Mrs. Piper never sees apparitions or phantasms in her normal state; none have been reported of her as systematic experiences, as I have observed them in Mrs. Chenoweth.... The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
The phantasm of the world; of which thy world Is but the wreck. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
These being sure signs that the corpse was possessed by a vampire, the local bailie was fetched and the usual proceedings for the expulsion of the undesirable phantasm began. Byways of Ghost-Land
Goethe's feeling of the difference in their thoughts and aims: Great Nature not a phantasm of her children's brains. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
It contributed, through a thousand previous years, phantasms about the other world and dogmas about the relation of this world to that one. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Nothing; but you will see that these later experiments of the Italian scientists are sustaining De Rochas and Aksakof in their claim that the medium is in a sense dematerialized to build up the phantasms. The Shadow World
Then I forwarded the drama to a publisher, also an acquaintance, a man with a taste for phantasms and a soul above mere common popularity, as his own coffers knew to their cost. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
The sacrificer joyfully closed with the bargain, and the ceremony concluded with much feasting and merriment, in which, however, it is highly improbable that the phantasms of the poor roasted "toms" took part. Byways of Ghost-Land
The Russians have not been side-tracked into the phantasms of democracy. Erik Dorn
The age cherished ideals and phantasms on which it dwelt in thought, developing them. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
But when by the king required not only to interpret but to reveal the very phantasm itself, they declared it beyond the power of their own or human art. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
The seat was already taken; a heavy German woman filled it so solidly that no phantasm could have squeezed in beside her. The Coast of Bohemia
There are numerous instances of hauntings by phenomena of this kind, in some cases the phantasms being wholly animal, and in other cases semi-animal. Byways of Ghost-Land
She was as complete a mystery of the ocean night as any spectral fabric, and a heavier terror to me than a phantasm worked by ghosts could have proved. The Frozen Pirate
It is a phantasm which has little or no connection with fact. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Still I lay quiet because it was some time before I could collect my scattered senses and separate in my mind the real incident and the dream phantasms. The Black Wolf Pack
It had no concrete shape, but seemed to embrace remote phantasms. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909
Like most phantasms, the modern pixies are silent and elusive. Byways of Ghost-Land
And it was at this moment, when all these phantasms had vanished, that my companion fell senseless in the snow at my feet. The Lady of the Ice A Novel
The lonely, star-lit nights at sea encourage such phantasms; and the break of the waves upon the bow, with their myriad of phosphorescent sparkles, cheats and illumines the fancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
Through this world which seemed more a phantasm than a reality, Landless and Patricia fared, and were happy. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
Do you believe, O Timotheus, that Perictione, the mother of Plato, became his mother by the sole agency of Apollo’s divine spirit, under the phantasm of that god? Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
Are they the spirits of human beings who, when inhabiting material bodies, led thoroughly criminal lives; are they the phantasms of dead beasts—cats and dogs, etc.; or are they things that were never carnate? Byways of Ghost-Land
I soon saw the cause of the phantasm. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
An Assembly of Notables was brought together, but it was only the empty phantasm of national representation. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
The scene was quite magical and considering the general aridity for a large part of the year, it appeared almost like a phantasm. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth precogitations, making cables of cobwebs, and wildernesses of handsome groves.... Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
One can only surmise the identity of such phantasms, after becoming acquainted with the history of the locality in which such manifestations appear. Byways of Ghost-Land
Insoluble—yes, assuredly, poor little beaten phantasms of palpitating clay that we are—and who asked us to solve it? Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
Here we have an incident not unlike that which occurred to Mrs. Talbot—the unexpected apparition of the phantasm or dual body of one who at the moment was in imminent danger of death. Real Ghost Stories
Chaucer was not tempted by the phantasm of the Epic Poem like Boccaccio, and like so many of the great and wise in later generations. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
She remembered the scenes of the banquet as the phantasms of a dream—strange and terrible; for her thoughts were slow to gather the threads and weave the woof. The Lion's Brood
I believe it attracts phantasms in just the same way as do certain people, myself included, and certain kinds of furniture. Byways of Ghost-Land
Like most European countries, Scotland claims its share of phantasms in the form of "White Ladies." Scottish Ghost Stories
I only learnt when the above was passing through the press that the unfortunate man, whose phantasm appeared to my friend, died suddenly either by his own hand or by accident. Real Ghost Stories
The phantasm of a crime of love tempted and beckoned to him: to kill this man, take the woman by force, wreak his brutal will upon her, and then kill himself. The Child of Pleasure
Therefore His intellective soul could understand nothing except by turning to phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Hence, one human being may be represented by a score of phantasms, and it is quite possible for a house to be haunted by many totally different phenomena of the same person. Byways of Ghost-Land
Entering the garret to which I have already alluded, the phantasm noiselessly approached the hearth, and, pointing downward with a violent motion of the index finger of its right hand, suddenly vanished. Scottish Ghost Stories
Many of the apparitions that are reported are of phantasms that appear in fulfilment of a promise made to survivors during life. Real Ghost Stories
Marriage had become a magnificent phantasm, superimposed upon a dream, a purely supposititious rise of salary. The Judgment of Eve
But our soul cannot understand except by turning to phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The Airlie family, whose headquarters are at Cortachy Castle, is haunted by the phantasm of a drummer that beats a tattoo before the death of one of the members of the clan. Byways of Ghost-Land
Most phantasms of the dead inspire those who see them with horror,—and that is my own experience,—but "Pearlin' Jean" seems to have been an exception to this rule. Scottish Ghost Stories
It was curious that the phantasm never showed him the front of its face, which was always hidden by the door. Real Ghost Stories
"When am I to have my letter?" she persisted, clinging tenaciously to one clear thought amid the phantasms which thronged her dazed mind. The Captain of the Kansas
Therefore it could understand without turning to phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Hauntings of this type generally occur where excavations have been made, a barrow broken into, or a dolmen removed; the manifestations generally taking the form of phantasms of the dead, the prehistoric dead. Byways of Ghost-Land
From its general contour and the tangled mass of hair that fell about its neck and shoulders, Lady Adela concluded it was the phantasm of a woman. Scottish Ghost Stories
He observed her closely until his brother entered the house, and coming into the room passed completely through the phantasm, which shortly afterwards faded away. Real Ghost Stories
He covered his eyes with his hands, expecting that the phantasms before him might pass with vision, and that with vision's return might come the dear, familiar commonplaces of his commonplace life. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain
But the soul of man on earth needs to turn to phantasms, because it is fettered by the body and in a measure subject to and dependent upon it. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Some six months later, she was introduced to the material counterpart of the phantasm, who was destined to play a most important part in her life. Byways of Ghost-Land
Few ghosts have obtained more notoriety than "Pearlin' Jean," the phantasm which for many years haunted Allanbank, a seat of the Stuarts. Scottish Ghost Stories
All maternal agency and appearance, the subjective world, are to a great extent phantasms, the notional representations of ignorance. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
"A sort of Flying Dutchman!" remarked Merriwell, and, indeed, the passing steamer did seem more a phantasm of the fog than a real vessel carrying living, breathing people. Frank Merriwell's Reward
And hence the blessed both before and after the resurrection can understand without turning to phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
I sat down; I never for one moment thought of phantasms; I fell asleep. Byways of Ghost-Land
Dashing its head forward, it broke off at a gallop, and, tearing frantically past the phantasm, went helter-skelter down the road to my left. Scottish Ghost Stories
It conjures no phantasms to appal the superstitious fancy, and its place in primitive mythology is conformably inferior. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
At the moment of death an almost superhuman mental effort is more likely and possible than at any other time, and it is peculiar that these visions or phantasms are largely confined to that moment. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
Hence, although the sight knows nothing without color; nevertheless in a certain state the intellect can know without phantasms, but not without intelligible species. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Was it the phantasm of one of those poor waifs and strays, having all their bestialities and diseases magnified; or was it the spirit of a tree of some unusually noxious nature? Byways of Ghost-Land
At the sound of his stentorian voice the phantasm vanished. Scottish Ghost Stories
It was haunted ground, and then, as now, "phantasms" were about. The Sea-Kings of Crete
All that thou hast looked upon—even in the dominion of Victoria, the Queen of England—is but an image on the water and a mirage of phantasms! Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
The other relation is to lower things, i.e. to phantasms, which naturally move the human mind by virtue of the active intellect. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
I think," I replied, "that the phantasm was very probably that of a real dog, and that it became genuinely attached to your son. Byways of Ghost-Land
That conception of God which a man forms for himself is but a phantasm, an image, an imagination, an illusion. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
A certain imperial dignity attaches to them long after they have ceased to reign: over the brows that have worn worthily the diadem there still hangs the phantasm of a shadowy crown. Sword and Gown A Novel
The first is the sentimental phantasm of posthumous fame. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
But the habit of infused knowledge is of a different nature, as coming down to the soul from on high, and not from phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
What phantasm of any standing at all would be attracted by such baubles? Byways of Ghost-Land
But whether phantasm, mirage, ignis fatuus, or sober but grand reality, will assuredly be found out by science before another half century. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
The third cause is spiritual and external; for instance when by the work of a devil the sleeper's phantasms are disturbed so as to induce the aforesaid result. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
In the other story the foot was above the table; in the new version no infant phantasm occurs. Historical Mysteries
Therefore it does not pertain to the perfection of human intellect to know things of which there are no phantasms, such as separate substances. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
For the human brain, a masterpiece of the Creator’s wisdom, is now generally believed to consist of various portions which are the organs of the passions, of motive power and the phantasms, erroneously called ideation. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
If it is a phantasm, it is more gorgeous than the most splendid creations of poetry. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
It was, doubtless, no more the real Boston we know and love, than either of the others: and it perplexed her more than it need, even if it had not been mere phantasm. A Chance Acquaintance
Mr. Browning seized the phantasm, which was Home's naked foot. Historical Mysteries
Therefore it seems that the soul of Christ can only understand by turning to phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Now, in an infant the brain is still too soft and imperfect to form the proper phantasms from which the intellect is to elaborate its ideas. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
Why in this case should we call the reality sleep, and the phantasm waking? Death—and After?
And if human murderers and their victims have phantasms, why should not animals have phantasms too? Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
I know these star-shouldering souls, these farmers of phantasms who exist in a world by themselves. Visionaries
Hence, if the soul of Christ could understand without turning to phantasms, which arise in the senses, it would follow that in the soul of Christ the senses were useless, which is not fitting. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
He conjectured that the actions of the mesmeric subject could be explained without a fluid by the suggestion of phantasms to him on the part of the mesmerizer. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
Now the act of understanding is not said to be common to soul and body, except in respect of the phantasm, as is stated in De Anima, text. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
Why should not the phenomenon of the cat seen by Mrs. Hartnoll and the Wheelers have been the actual phantasm of an earthbound cat? Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
And he hoped that it would not spare him, as this phantasm twirled and ululated in the heavens, a grim portent of the iron wrath of the Almighty. Visionaries
And some attempt will be made to determine roughly how far the process of dissolving these substantial beliefs of mankind into airy phantasms may venture to go. Illusions A Psychological Study
When we see, feel, hear, taste, or smell anything by our bodily senses, our imagination takes note of the object perceived by forming a brain-picture of it which is called a phantasm. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
Whence it follows that the intellective habit is chiefly on the part of the intellect itself; and not on the part of the phantasm, which is common to soul and body. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
Here, then, in my opinion, is a very feasible explanation for the hauntings—the phenomenon seen was the phantasm of the poor, tortured cat. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
The three elements appear in their proper sequence even in the amorphous phantasms which these types first shadow forth, and which are subsequently perfected and embodied in human form. Myth and Science An Essay
Even persons subject to hallucinations, like Nicolai of Berlin, learn to recognize the unreal character of these phantasms. Illusions A Psychological Study
And even in children whose outer senses are sound the brain or the nervous system may be too imperfect to allow of its forming proper phantasms. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
"The individual soul is but a phantasm of the universal soul, as the reflection of the sun in the water is but a phantasm of the sun." The Evolution of Love
Mr. Stead does not comment on the apparition of the dog, which leads one to suppose cases of animal phantasms were by no means uncommon to him. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
In this way, the circle is completed and combined in one unique phantasm; a phenomenon, a living subject, and a real power. Myth and Science An Essay
But the operation proper to the soul, which is to understand through a phantasm, cannot be without the body. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The cause of the disease I showed to lie in an abnormal action of the brain, which is the storehouse of the phantasms or brain-pictures. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
Thy Heralds, the North-Lights, did startle me Into new wonder by their glowing shapes, Swift rushing down the sky, those phantasms wild, Flushing, and paling in their measureless speed. The Arctic Queen
One of the most extraordinary cases of hauntings by the phantasms of dogs is related in an old Christmas number of the Review of Reviews, edited by the late Mr. W.T. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Again, we have plainly shown that man, by the intrinsic reduplication of his psychical faculty, spontaneously retains and personifies the inward phantasm generated by such a projection of special natural objects on his perception. Myth and Science An Essay
If, however, in the process of intellectual operation the body is weary, this result is accidental, inasmuch as the intellect requires the operation of the sensitive powers in the production of the phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The reasoning of the insane man may be logically faultless, we said, but he reasons from false premises supplied to him by the phantasms of a diseased imagination. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
But this is not necessarily to think that they are capable of giving off a phantasm, as a man does when his soul temporarily leaves him, or when after death his soul becomes a ghost. Anthropology
Miss Prettyman, her family, several of their visitors, and the servants all saw the same phantasm, and were, perhaps, more frightened by the suddenness of its advent than by its actual appearance. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
There is no such thing as the god Apollo, and 227science makes a clean sweep of Apollo and Dionysos and all such fictitious objectivities; they are eidola, idols, phantasms, not objective realities. Ancient Art and Ritual
For the relation of phantasms to the intellect is like the relation of colors to the sense of sight, as he says De Anima iii, 5,7. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Every phantasm, or brain-picture, is a representation which presents its object as having a definite shape or size, while your idea of a book ignores any shape or size. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
Dr. Tylor's general treatment of the subject seems to lay most of the emphasis on the phantasm. Anthropology
At the most we can only surmise, and I should think the chances of its being the actual phantasm of some dead dog or an elemental are about equal. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
There was a deeper horror in those mocking shapes than in the most loathsome phantasms of corporeal corruption that feverish dreams ever called up from the grave-yard. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'
Therefore, from the fact that the species of phantasms are in the possible intellect, it does not follow that Socrates, in whom are the phantasms, understands, but that he or his phantasms are understood. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
They evidence realities, and there are enough of these for all the purposes of life, without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
Saint, sage, sophist, moralist, and preacher, have repeated in every possible image, till there is nothing new to say, that life is a bubble, a dream, a delusion, a phantasm. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Perhaps, one of the most interesting accounts of the phantasm of a horse in my possession is that recorded by C.E. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Lakes glimmered; distant ranges took on the forms of phantasm, rising higher, flattening, reaching across space the arches of their spans, rendering unreal a world of beauty and dread. The Killer
But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
It is worth remarking that Mr. "Q." has, doubtless from some idiosyncrasy, since developed a faculty of seeing lights where other people see phantasms. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House
It can, for example, readily detect the whereabouts of phantasms haunting localities, but not so easily those haunting people. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
It is the sham work, perhaps, of our day, that shakes faith in purpose and unity; a scrambling, shifty living of men's own, that makes to their sight a chance huddle and phantasm of creation. The Other Girls
Therefore, if there were one intellect for all men, the diversity of phantasms which are in this one and that one would not cause a diversity of intellectual operation in this man and that man. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
He threw himself forward impulsively, in a mad attempt to approach the wonderful phantasm. Austin and His Friends
The phantasm seen by Carter the housemaid, on the night of April 27th, who was described as "rather old," may possibly have been identical with the above. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House
The phantasm came right up to where I stood, paused for a second, and then slowly went on; up, up, up, until a sudden bend in the staircase hid it from view. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Out of the sky, as if rising from worlds beyond the horizon, a cyclopean phantasm of clouds took form. The Eternal Maiden
But it has no operation apart from the body, not even that of understanding: for the act of understanding does not take place without a phantasm, which cannot exist apart from the body. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture—her attitude toward life—took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, an insanity of force. Preaching and Paganism
Like other phantasms seen at dark, they show 'by their own light,' i.e. they appear to be outlined by a thread of light. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House
But what were the phantasms of the ape and cat? Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
I found my moral energies recruited, and the dark phantasms of my imagination dispelled by the light of religion, which had refreshed me with a deep sense of the Almighty presence. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
But the operations of the intellect, which does not act through the body, do not need a body as their instrument, except to supply phantasms through the senses. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It is not surprising, then, that poor Alice's mind on that night was filled with phantasms of the most feverish and excited description. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
He was told to go to the farther side of the burn, and to stand under the sapling, which is at some little distance from the spot where the phantasm usually appears. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House
In the parish of Overstrand, there used to be a lane called "Shuck's Lane," named after this phantasm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
This, however, is merely the weakness of human nature—the effect of unreal phantasms that influence the reason while we are awake, just as that of dreams does the imagination while we are asleep. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Therefore they are subject to the command of reason, which can not only incite or modify the affections of the appetitive power, but can also form the phantasms of the imagination. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
And then, as the phantasms of the stage come and go, and fortune plays many pranks with these puppets, the piece draws near to an end. Macleod of Dare
Then his hand passed heavily across his face as though to force his brain to coherent action, to lift the spell of what seemed a wild phantasm in all around him. The Miracle Man
Brief Summary After a little consideration I am inclined to think there are quite as many authentic cases of hauntings by the phantasms of horses as by the phantasms of cats and dogs. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Obliterate that boundary and all is pathless morass, black chaos and on the mind the phantasms which belong to the victim of delirium tremens. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
Objection 1: It would seem that the intellect can actually understand through the intelligible species of which it is possessed, without turning to the phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
And according as these are, more or less, or variously mixt and compounded, so are the sensations, and consequently the phantasms of colours diversified. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Some toads are evil goblins, and create phantasms for the purpose of luring men to destruction. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
Undoubtedly, spirits in the guise of birds—most probably they are the phantasms of birds that have actually once lived on the material plane—are the messengers of death. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
The earthquake, flood, tidal wave, famine, withering or devastating wind and poisonous gases, the geological monsters and ravening bird, beast and fish, have their representatives or supposed incarnations in mythical phantasms. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
I answer that, In the present state of life in which the soul is united to a passible body, it is impossible for our intellect to understand anything actually, except by turning to the phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Parties are forming on the basis of economic realities, not on that of "religious" phantasms. The Open Secret of Ireland
Fantastic phantasms fly before the light— Pale, gibbering ghosts and ghouls and goblin fears: Man who hath walked in sleep—what thousands years? The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems
Dead magpies were once hung over the doorways of haunted houses to keep away ghosts; it being almost universally believed that all phantasms shared the same dread of this bird. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
In its bosom swims the fair phantasm Of a subterraneous azure chasm, So soft and clear, you would say the stream Was dreaming of heaven a visible dream. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
For this reason it is that when we wish to help someone to understand something, we lay examples before him, from which he forms phantasms for the purpose of understanding. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
And I have seen the demonstration by science that this visible and tangible world in its final analysis is both invisible and intangible—a phantasm of the senses. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality
The world of phantasms had resumed its sway. The Silent Places
A lane in Hertfordshire was—and, perhaps, still is—haunted by the phantasm of a big white sow which had accidentally been run over and killed. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
But the present environment added just the proper atmosphere to make one think for a second that he was participating in some phantasm of Dante's. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
If, however, the evaporation be somewhat less, phantasms appear, but distorted and without sequence; thus it happens in a case of fever. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
As I leaned back in my chair thinking, this phantasm of my father came, and turned, and vanished with a solemn regularity. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Even his ghosts are un-Celtic, misty and unsubstantial phantasms, unlike the embodied revenants of the saga which are in agreement with the Celtic belief that the soul assumed a body in the other world. The Religion of the Ancient Celts
I have had this phantasm described to me, by those who declare they have seen it, as a very tall, hooded figure, clad in a dark, loose, flowing costume—its face never discernible. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Yet we will turn from them all, from the victory and sorrow alike, to this faintly gleaming bubble of glass that will hold captive the phantasm of a fragrance of the soul. Aspects of Literature
Objection 1: It would seem that our intellect does not understand corporeal and material things by abstraction from the phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Pure faith, free from dogmas, about which I wrote a great deal years ago, is a phantasm. Tragic Sense Of Life
It would seem as well to save one's self this disagreeable experience by refusing to accept unreal phantasms as things of flesh and blood and power. Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold
The following account, which concludes my notes on hauntings by dog phantasms, was sent me many years ago by a gentleman then living in Virginia, U.S.A. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
The effort which such momentary victories demand is almost superhuman; yet to possess the power to exert it is the sole condition upon which a poet may plunge into the world of phantasms. Aspects of Literature
Now the forms of material things do not exist as abstracted from the particular things represented by the phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
When thou prayest, shut thy door—that is, the doors of thy senses … keep them barred and bolted against all phantasms and images…. Christian Mysticism
How still and clear is Tao, a phantasm with the semblance of permanence! The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
There being no one near at hand, I could not obtain a second opinion, and so came away wondering whether what I had seen was actually a phantasm or a mere hallucination. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
The suffragette procession in which Miss Ingate had musically and discreetly taken part seemed to her as she stood in Mr. Moze’s changeless lair to be a phantasm. The Lion's Share
Therefore, if we understand material things by abstraction of the species from the phantasm, there will be error in the intellect. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It is all according to the order of nature; and phantasms riding with huge clatter along the streets, from end to end of our existence, astonish nobody. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
The misty moon means ruin, the metamorphosis into the crawling phantasm—death. The Sorcery Club
In this case it seems more than likely the huntsman, horse and hounds were all bona fide phantasms of the dead. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
For, when you have once been at Pompeii, this phantasm of the past takes deeper hold on your imagination than any living city, and becomes and is the metropolis of your dreamland forever. Italian Journeys
Therefore in no way do we understand by abstraction from phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The phantasms of a night that had answered to his hallucinations were as nothing to the realities of a morning whose cruel light showed him only more plainly the blackness of his despair. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
There is the phantasm of an elderly gentleman standing behind you. The Sorcery Club
Hauntings by the Phantasms of Birds One of the most curious cases of hauntings by the phantasms of birds happened towards the end of the eighteenth century in a church not twenty miles from London. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Behind that veil, behind that softened phantasm of the mighty life without, he could hear the rise of spring. Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Therefore material things must needs be understood according as they are abstracted from matter and from material images, namely, phantasms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
They have bewildered the imagination of the people with phantasms, and led them to believe that they were fighting for their homes and liberty, whose homes were unthreatened, and whose liberty was in no jeopardy. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
Wider and wider spread the balloon of phantasm. The Mississippi Bubble
From the Hebrides there comes to me a case of the phantasm of a black bull, that, on certain nights in the year, is heard bellowing inside the shed where it was killed. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Albine, if more or less unreal, a phantasm, the spirit as it were of Nature incarnate in womanhood, is none the less the most delightful of M. Zola's heroines. Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Objection 1: It would seem that the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm is related to our intellect as that which is understood. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Through these phantasms the tall figure of Colonel Dalhousie perpetually moved, smiling softly. V. V.'s Eyes
He seemed even to himself to be in a dream the sport of an incubus, that oppressed every faculty and energy of spirit, while yet presenting the most dreadful phantasms to his imagination. Nick of the Woods
It is most difficult to get an elephant to pass a spot where any phantasm is known to appear. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
He is tortured by the phantasm of Doubt. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
Therefore it understands the universal directly through the intelligible species, and indirectly the singular represented by the phantasm. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
In the end beauty revenged itself upon him by bringing him to a no-man's land where there were clouds and phantasms that he could no longer direct. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
These crowding events seemed the wildest series of unrealities; seemed the frenzied, feverish phantasms of a nightmare. No. 13 Washington Square
The movements of the phantasm were entirely repetitionary of the previous night. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
"That is not a phantasm," said I at last; "it is a real city." A Trip to Venus
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