phantom quotes

In the deep windings of the grove no more The hag obscene, and grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds, is heard the angry spirit's yell.

-James Beattie
  The Minstrel, bk.2, stanza 47.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

- Miguel de Unamuno
Collected in Essays and Soliloquies (translated byJ E Crawford Flitch,1925).

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovelyapparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

-William Wordsworth
  'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1^4 (published1807).