Abraham Cowley, (born 1618, London died July 28 , 1667 Chertsey, Eng)., poet and essayist who wrote poetry of a fanciful, decorous nature.
In place of brutish nature, fanciful artifice.
In one of the more fanciful conceptions of nature, the British physicist and philosopher Julian Barbour proposed that the world is just a "heap of moments," each an instant of frozen time.
Its apparent theory of human nature is fanciful, and might seem inconsistent.
Such concretizing of metaphor is widespread, particularly in depictions of post-mortem experience, which capitalize on popular, fanciful notions about the nature of heaven and hell -- clouds, wings, haloes, harps and white robes on the one side; fire, horned red devils with tails, heat, and grief on the other.
Kampan revels in elaborate metaphor, hyperbole, and fanciful descriptions of virtue and nature in Irāmāvatāram.
More like Sanskrit than Śaṅgam poets, Kampaṉ revels in elaborate metaphor, hyperbole, and fanciful descriptions of virtue and nature.
These hanging pieces, also inspired by nature but as fanciful as science fiction, gave the exhibition its name, "Canutopia," a combination of the words canopy and utopia.
His debut release is the lush four-track EP Welcome Home and serves as a perfect introduction to his fanciful and feral, wild like nature ballads.
For the next 150 years the study of the Chinese language was overwhelmingly in the hands of missionaries, merchants, and diplomats to the "Middle Kingdom", amateurs all, with several insights into the language mixed with fanciful speculations about its origin, nature, and development.
