Shakespeare excelled in "fancy" or imagination, but he lagged behind in "judgment".
In that context he was a model of refinement and taste, with no loss of rhapsodic fancy and imagination.
The concepts of fancy and imagination have always been closely related, but at least since the Middle Ages distinctions have been made between the two.
He once spoke of his mind's taking "a fanciful photograph" of a scene, and there is a continual interplay between photographic realism and "fancy" (or imagination).
De la Mare's powers of fancy, his "imagination of the heart", appealed to large numbers of readers and by the mid-1920s hadhad justified Newbolt's faith in his talent.
Fiction has provided stereotype characters that have personified human traits: frailties, weaknesses, courage, friendship, unfaithfulness, treachery… but those portraying the protection of the weak, the defenseless, and the downtrodden, have caught the fancy and imagination of millions throughout the centuries.
Ruiz, too, turns the video studio into an infinite playground with which to unfold, with a documentary precision, the fancies of imagination.
Cotchery never, not in the wildest fancies of his imagination, pictured a year like the one that he had just lived through.
Imagination and Fancy (1844), his most sustained critical work, draws interesting parallels between painting and poetry.
"No humdrum, monotonous, conventional task could ever have been discharged with more business-like regularity than he gave to the work of his imagination and fancy".
Despite the struggle to survive, the goal wasn't mere subsistence or corporeal existence but a life, entailing a nuanced inner life — the life of the imagination, of fancy and dream, of dramas and, for that matter, of comedies that surpassed the ordeal of mere perseverance.
