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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It is one of those studies in which he was always happy , for it keeps him chietly in
Italy ; and when it takes him from Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of
English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering the ruggeder native
...
It is one of those studies in which he was always happy , for it keeps him chietly in
Italy ; and when it takes him from Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of
English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering the ruggeder native
...
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damped enough , - that it was too daring and unsubdued ; and he not only
avenges himself nobly of his fears by a flight beyond all Italian poetry , but shows
, like the rest of his countrymen , that he could turn the coldness of his climate into
a ...
damped enough , - that it was too daring and unsubdued ; and he not only
avenges himself nobly of his fears by a flight beyond all Italian poetry , but shows
, like the rest of his countrymen , that he could turn the coldness of his climate into
a ...
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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 to lodging .
... 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 to lodging .
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It is the fee and fata of the French and 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 ancestors , and means exclusively the little creature ...
It is the fee and fata of the French and 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 ancestors , and means exclusively the little creature ...
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... that fairy is but a modern word , and meant formerly the region in 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 ...
... that fairy is but a modern word , and meant formerly the region in 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 ...
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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 | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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