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 16
At that movement a hundred little sparkles fly up from the coaldust that falls within
, while from the masses themselves , a roaring flame mounts aloft with a deep
and fitful sound as of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I 16 A DAY BY THE FIRE
.
At that movement a hundred little sparkles fly up from the coaldust that falls within
, while from the masses themselves , a roaring flame mounts aloft with a deep
and fitful sound as of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I 16 A DAY BY THE FIRE
.
Page 29
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 corner of the grate like a quivering spangle ; sometimes it swells out at top
...
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 corner of the grate like a quivering spangle ; sometimes it swells out at top
...
Page 31
Now stir the fire , and close the shutters fast , Let fall the curtains , wheel the sofa
round , And , while the bubbling and loud - hissing urn Throws up a steamy
column , and the cups That cheer , but not inebriate , wait on each , So let us
welcome ...
Now stir the fire , and close the shutters fast , Let fall the curtains , wheel the sofa
round , And , while the bubbling and loud - hissing urn Throws up a steamy
column , and the cups That cheer , but not inebriate , wait on each , So let us
welcome ...
Page 44
... but finding , by degrees , no flashes from an unfortunate gentleman on his right
, he turns stiftly towards him at the first commonplace remark , measures him from
head to foot with a kind of wondering indifference , and then falls to stirring his ...
... but finding , by degrees , no flashes from an unfortunate gentleman on his right
, he turns stiftly towards him at the first commonplace remark , measures him from
head to foot with a kind of wondering indifference , and then falls to stirring his ...
Page 53
When there is a heavenquake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; — when
Apollo comes down in his wrath “ like night - time , ” and a plague falls upon the
people ; when a fated man in a tragedy is described sleeping at the foot of an
altar ...
When there is a heavenquake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; — when
Apollo comes down in his wrath “ like night - time , ” and a plague falls upon the
people ; when a fated man in a tragedy is described sleeping at the foot of an
altar ...
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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 | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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