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“Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.”

Dream Past Night Fall Heaven Stars Effects Example Fancy Gross Lure Lucifer Meteors

Author:Alfred Austin

“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.”

Men Way Has Beens Two Country Feelings Past Interest Sea Findings Enlightenment England Blessed Unity Fancy Injury Mutual Ireland Two Countries

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.”

Looks Past Memories Fancy

Book:Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].

Source: Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].