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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Pleasure ; On a Pebble ; Spring ; | Cat by the Fire ; Put up a Picture in Color :
Windows ; Windows , con your Room ; A Gentleman - Saint ; sidered from inside ;
A Flower for The Eve of St . Agnes ; A “ Now , " your Window ; A Word on Early ...
Pleasure ; On a Pebble ; Spring ; | Cat by the Fire ; Put up a Picture in Color :
Windows ; Windows , con your Room ; A Gentleman - Saint ; sidered from inside ;
A Flower for The Eve of St . Agnes ; A “ Now , " your Window ; A Word on Early ...
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... reader , — think of the pride and pleasure of having in your hand that awful ,
but at the same time artless , weapon , a poker , — of putting it into the proper bar
, gently levering up the coals , and seeing the instant and bustling flame above !
... reader , — think of the pride and pleasure of having in your hand that awful ,
but at the same time artless , weapon , a poker , — of putting it into the proper bar
, gently levering up the coals , and seeing the instant and bustling flame above !
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... we are enabled to have recourse to exercise ; and in that case , I am not so
unjust as to deny that walking or riding has its merits , and that the general glow
they diffuse throughout the frame has something in it so extremely pleasurable
and ...
... we are enabled to have recourse to exercise ; and in that case , I am not so
unjust as to deny that walking or riding has its merits , and that the general glow
they diffuse throughout the frame has something in it so extremely pleasurable
and ...
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been reasonably doubted whether it is not the most luxurious point of time which
a fireside can present ; but opinions will naturally be divided on this as on all
other subjects , and every degree of pleasure depends upon so many
contingencies ...
been reasonably doubted whether it is not the most luxurious point of time which
a fireside can present ; but opinions will naturally be divided on this as on all
other subjects , and every degree of pleasure depends upon so many
contingencies ...
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I am speaking , of course , not of our commonplace eaters and drinkers , but of
our classical arbiters of pleasure , as contrasted with those of other countries ;
these , it is observable , have all delighted in Horace , and copied him as far as
their ...
I am speaking , of course , not of our commonplace eaters and drinkers , but of
our classical arbiters of pleasure , as contrasted with those of other countries ;
these , it is observable , have all delighted in Horace , and copied him as far as
their ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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