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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... Milton ; Specimens of Chaucer ; Peter Wilkins and the Flying Woman ; English and French Females ; English Male Costume ; English Women Vindicated ; Sunday in London ; Sunday in the Suburbs ; A Human Being and a Crowd ; The " The Seer ...
... Milton ; Specimens of Chaucer ; Peter Wilkins and the Flying Woman ; English and French Females ; English Male Costume ; English Women Vindicated ; Sunday in London ; Sunday in the Suburbs ; A Human Being and a Crowd ; The " The Seer ...
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... Translation from Milton into Welsh • The Bull - Fight ; or , The Story of Don Alphonso de Melos and the Jeweller's Daughter . • Love and Will 302 315 319 • 326 331 334 343 353 A DAY BY THE FIRE . AM one of those 8 CONTENTS .
... Translation from Milton into Welsh • The Bull - Fight ; or , The Story of Don Alphonso de Melos and the Jeweller's Daughter . • Love and Will 302 315 319 • 326 331 334 343 353 A DAY BY THE FIRE . AM one of those 8 CONTENTS .
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... Milton , it is true , in his " Paradise Lost , " ex- presses an injudicious apprehension lest- " An age too late , or cold - Climate , or years , damp his intended wing ; " but the very complaint which foreign critics bring against him ...
... Milton , it is true , in his " Paradise Lost , " ex- presses an injudicious apprehension lest- " An age too late , or cold - Climate , or years , damp his intended wing ; " but the very complaint which foreign critics bring against him ...
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... Milton , in his " Sonnet to Cyriack Skinner , " one of the turns of which is plainly imitated from Horace , par- ticularly qualifies a strong invitation to merriment by an- ticipating what Horace would always drive from your reflections ...
... Milton , in his " Sonnet to Cyriack Skinner , " one of the turns of which is plainly imitated from Horace , par- ticularly qualifies a strong invitation to merriment by an- ticipating what Horace would always drive from your reflections ...
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... Milton was in some such attitude as I have described , when he sketched that enchanting little picture which beats all the cabinet portraits that have been pro- duced , - — " Or if the air will not permit , Some 28 A DAY BY THE FIRE .
... Milton was in some such attitude as I have described , when he sketched that enchanting little picture which beats all the cabinet portraits that have been pro- duced , - — " Or if the air will not permit , Some 28 A DAY BY THE FIRE .
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