A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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Page 20
But I hasten from dinner , according to notice ; and cannot but observe that , if you
have a small set of visitors who enter into your feelings on this head , there is no
movement so pleasant as a general one from the table to the fireside , each ...
But I hasten from dinner , according to notice ; and cannot but observe that , if you
have a small set of visitors who enter into your feelings on this head , there is no
movement so pleasant as a general one from the table to the fireside , each ...
Page 29
How observed with the smallest effort is every trick and aspect of the fire ! A coal
falling in , a fleettering fume , a miniature mockery of a flash of lightning , —
nothing escapes the eye and the imagination . Sometimes a little flame appears
at the ...
How observed with the smallest effort is every trick and aspect of the fire ! A coal
falling in , a fleettering fume , a miniature mockery of a flash of lightning , —
nothing escapes the eye and the imagination . Sometimes a little flame appears
at the ...
Page 31
... completely to himself , - he is the poet of quiet life and familiar observation . '
The fire , we see , is now stirred , and becomes very different from the one we
have just left ; it puts on its liveliest aspect in order to welcome those to whom the
tea ...
... completely to himself , - he is the poet of quiet life and familiar observation . '
The fire , we see , is now stirred , and becomes very different from the one we
have just left ; it puts on its liveliest aspect in order to welcome those to whom the
tea ...
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The gentleman thinks this no very profound remark for so great a man , but puts
on as patient a face as he can , and , refreshing himself with shifting one knee
over the other , waits anxiously for the next observation . After a little silence ,
broken ...
The gentleman thinks this no very profound remark for so great a man , but puts
on as patient a face as he can , and , refreshing himself with shifting one knee
over the other , waits anxiously for the next observation . After a little silence ,
broken ...
Page 46
It has often delighted me to observe a profound thinker of my acquaintance ,
when a good natured person of ordinary understanding has been present . He is
reckoned severe , as it is called , in many of his opinions : and is thought
particularly ...
It has often delighted me to observe a profound thinker of my acquaintance ,
when a good natured person of ordinary understanding has been present . He is
reckoned severe , as it is called , in many of his opinions : and is thought
particularly ...
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| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Publisher | Roberts Brothers, 1870 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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