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... Fancy " is " imagination , but it also signifies " False notion " and " Something that pleases or entertains without real use or value . " The verb " To fancy " means " To believe without being able to prove . " The cognate ...
... Fancy " is " imagination , but it also signifies " False notion " and " Something that pleases or entertains without real use or value . " The verb " To fancy " means " To believe without being able to prove . " The cognate ...
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... fancy " ( PP , 232 ) . Edmund Bertram , in Mansfield Park , for a long time forms an illusory conception of Mary Crawford , who he eventually tells Fanny has been " the creature of / his own imagination " ( MP , 458 ) . Woodhouse , an ...
... fancy " ( PP , 232 ) . Edmund Bertram , in Mansfield Park , for a long time forms an illusory conception of Mary Crawford , who he eventually tells Fanny has been " the creature of / his own imagination " ( MP , 458 ) . Woodhouse , an ...
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... fancy . Though she recog- nizes , in one of her many conversations with Catherine , that historians are as capable as lit- erary writers of " flights of fancy " and of " imag- ination , " she claims , " I am fond of history -- and am ...
... fancy . Though she recog- nizes , in one of her many conversations with Catherine , that historians are as capable as lit- erary writers of " flights of fancy " and of " imag- ination , " she claims , " I am fond of history -- and am ...
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