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• Browning's world, else so massive and so indubitable, becomes unsubstantial and phantasmal, an illusive pageant in which Truth is present only under a mask, being “forced to manifest itself through falsehood.” Juan, who declares that, unlike poets, “we prose-folk” always dream, has, in effect, a visionary quality of imagination which suits his thesis and his theme. —  Robert Browning
• Thankfully, Alex didn't talk back, eliminating the possibility of joint hallucinations or a phantasmal threesome! —  WordPress.com News
• Sixth, if matter be not transmutable to soul, when that peculiar reality from which souls are developed is exhausted, and the last generation of incarnated beings have risen from the flesh, the material creation may, in addition to the inter stellar region, be eternally appropriated by the spirit races to their own free range and use, through adaptations of faculty unknown to us now; else it may vanish as a phantasmal spectacle. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• They portray the material creation as a phantasmal show of mind, a phenomenal process and aspect of spirit, indissoluble centers of consciousness alone having solid verity and stay, while matter and force and times and places whirl and pass, combine and dissolve Likewise the mathematicians, with their mighty calculus, translate all quantities and qualities, all objects and operations, into numerical symbols, and with these intellectual toys play the same miraculous tricks that the Creator himself plays with the originals. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• And, at another tap of the drum, there begins a performance impossible to picture in words, something unimaginable, phantasmal,--a dance, an astonishment All together glide the right foot forward one pace, without lifting the sandal from the ground, and extend both hands to the right, with a strange floating motion and a smiling, mysterious obeisance. —  Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

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