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How strongly we feel in this outburst that, despite his despair, or perhaps on account of it, Foscolo is himself one of those "crazy creatures fantasticating ways of bringing Italy to life!"

The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895

And yet I see certain crazy creatures fantasticating ways of bringing her to life; for myself, I should wish her to be buried with myself, and overwhelmed by the seas, or that some new Phaeton should precipitate upon her the flaming heavens, so that the ashes should be scattered to the four winds, and that the nations coming and to come should forget the infamy of our times.

The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895

This judgment strikes me to-day as having fallen short -- true as it may be that I find ever a value, or at least an interest, even in the moods and humours and lapses of any brooding, musing or fantasticating observer to whom the finer sense of things is < i > on the whole not closed.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

Our young men, fantasticating as freely as I leave the reader to estimate, crossed the wide, short bridge which made them face toward the monuments of old Paris -- the Palais de Justice, the Conciergerie, the holy chapel of Saint Louis.

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879