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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... Italian and English poets was simply a labor of love . He therefore wrote an essay giving the history of the sonnet ... Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering ...
... Italian and English poets was simply a labor of love . He therefore wrote an essay giving the history of the sonnet ... Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering ...
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... Italian poetry , but shows , like the rest of his countrymen , that he could turn the coldness of his climate into a new species of inspiration , as I shall pres- ently make manifest . Not to mention , however , that the Greeks and ...
... Italian poetry , but shows , like the rest of his countrymen , that he could turn the coldness of his climate into a new species of inspiration , as I shall pres- ently make manifest . Not to mention , however , that the Greeks and ...
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... Italian genius ; but Count Alfieri , a poet , at least as warmly inclined as Ariosto , delighted in England ; and the great romancer himself , in another of his satires , makes a commodious fireplace the climax of his wishes with regard ...
... Italian genius ; but Count Alfieri , a poet , at least as warmly inclined as Ariosto , delighted in England ; and the great romancer himself , in another of his satires , makes a commodious fireplace the climax of his wishes with regard ...
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... Italians ; who mean by it an imaginary lady of any sort , not of necessity small and generally of the human size . With us , it is the elf of our northern an- cestors , and means exclusively the little creature inhabit- ing the woods ...
... Italians ; who mean by it an imaginary lady of any sort , not of necessity small and generally of the human size . With us , it is the elf of our northern an- cestors , and means exclusively the little creature inhabit- ing the woods ...
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... which the Fay lived , and not the inhabitant . This is true ; but the root may still be the same , and the Italian word fata , from which it has been reasonably derived , says nothing to the contrary , 140 GENII AND FAIRIES OF THE EAST .
... which the Fay lived , and not the inhabitant . This is true ; but the root may still be the same , and the Italian word fata , from which it has been reasonably derived , says nothing to the contrary , 140 GENII AND FAIRIES OF THE EAST .
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