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  • She also worries about the "trouble" she causes her friends, and muses on the repercussions of mental illness -- she says: "I speak from experience, and from the opportunity I have had of much observation in such cases, that insane people, in the fancy's they take into their head, do not feel... the perception of having done wrong."

    Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011

  • She also worries about the "trouble" she causes her friends, and muses on the repercussions of mental illness -- she says: "I speak from experience, and from the opportunity I have had of much observation in such cases, that insane people, in the fancy's they take into their head, do not feel... the perception of having done wrong."

    Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011

  • She also worries about the "trouble" she causes her friends, and muses on the repercussions of mental illness -- she says: "I speak from experience, and from the opportunity I have had of much observation in such cases, that insane people, in the fancy's they take into their head, do not feel... the perception of having done wrong."

    Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011

  • She also worries about the "trouble" she causes her friends, and muses on the repercussions of mental illness -- she says: "I speak from experience, and from the opportunity I have had of much observation in such cases, that insane people, in the fancy's they take into their head, do not feel... the perception of having done wrong."

    Carolyn Vega: Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness Carolyn Vega 2011

  • Plus, Kirk fancy's himself as good for the enviornment, why then did the Sierra Club pull thier endorsment from him.

    Debate! How do you call it? Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • But as I lie here waking, I am half-sleeping, my memory reaching backward, searching for I know not what, in fancy's play, and I am taken back to a childhood day, all shrouded in the obscure fog of time, and suddenly, as were it thrust on me

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • But as I lie here waking, I am half-sleeping, my memory reaching backward, searching for I know not what, in fancy's play, and I am taken back to a childhood day, all shrouded in the obscure fog of time, and suddenly, as were it thrust on me

    Another Scribble 2005

  • "A sense of independence, of power, from the fancy's creating a world of its own by the sense of probabilities."

    Hard Marker Dunn, Peter N. 1979

  • He contended that the purpose of the stage is to instruct; he argued for poetic justice; he discussed the unities; he spoke of propriety of manners and language; and he warned of the danger of fancy's overriding judgment -- "the Fancy may be gain'd, and the Guards corrupted, and Reason suborn'd against itself."

    A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

  • But this was more easily said than done with us, who were travellers not for our own fancy's sake, but in the service of her most gracious Majesty.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

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