In the style of Mr. Willis we easily detect this idiosyncray. We have no trouble in tracing it home and when we reach it and look it fairly in the face, we recognize it on the instant. It is Fancy. Fancy combines Imagination creates. The Fancy as nearly creates as the imagination, and neither at all.
Novel conceptions are merely unusual combinations.
Not the griffin certainly, but its component parts. It is no more than a collation of known limbs features qualities. The wildest effort of the mind cannot stand the test of the analysis. We might make a distinction of degree between the fancy and the imagination, in calling the latter the former loftily employed. But experience would prove this distinction to be unsatisfactory.