IMAGINATION in Classic Quotes

1  The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with astonishment.

Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.

2  After which, like one whose imagination was struck with something never seen or heard of before, he would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV.

3  And I have reason to believe they had some imagination that I was of their own species, which I often assisted myself by stripping up my sleeves, and showing my naked arms and breasts in their sight, when my protector was with me.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.

4  By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined.

Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.

5  For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.

Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.

6  But I was afterward given privately to understand, that his imperial majesty, never imagining I had the least notice of his designs, believed I was only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise, according to the license he had given me, which was well known at our court, and would return in a few days, when the ceremony was ended.

Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.