phantasmagoria

• Nature is seen only as it is imaged in the mirror within; and to us it is a mere phantasmagoria, a series of phenomena, a succession of thoughts. —  Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
• Darkness and silence have a power of sorcery over the past; the soul has then, too, often restored to it feelings and thoughts that it had lost, and is made to know that nothing it once experiences ever perishes, but that all things spiritual possess a principle of immortal life Why linger on the shadowy wall some of those phantasmagoria--returning after they have disappeared--and reluctant to pass away into their former oblivion? —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• The whole horrible phantasmagoria--together with the odour of ancient rottenness--faded like a fevered dream, at the moment that Dr. Cairn had burst in upon the creator of it Robert Cairn stood up, weakly, trembling; then dropped upon his knees and sobbed out prayers of thankfulness that came from his frightened soul CHAPTER VII SIR ELWIN GROVES' PATIENT When a substantial legacy is divided into two shares, one of which falls to a man, young, dissolute and clever, and the other to a girl, pretty and inexperienced, there is laughter in the hells. —  Brood of the Witch-Queen
• How does he know that the universe is not a great phantasmagoria, as so many men have regarded it, and man the mere sport of chimeras? —  What is Darwinism?
• The whole phantasmagoria is the subject of the book, a hundred men and women, populating David's past and keeping his pen at full speed in the single-minded effort to portray them. —  The Craft of Fiction

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