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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... 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 new species of inspiration , as I shall pres- ently make manifest . Not to mention ...
... 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 new species of inspiration , as I shall pres- ently make manifest . Not to mention ...
Page 41
... fears , Break gentle sleep with misconceived doubt . Let no deluding dreams , nor dreadful sights , Make sudden , sad affrights , Ne let hobgoblins , names whose sense we see not , Fray us with things that be not ; But let still silence ...
... fears , Break gentle sleep with misconceived doubt . Let no deluding dreams , nor dreadful sights , Make sudden , sad affrights , Ne let hobgoblins , names whose sense we see not , Fray us with things that be not ; But let still silence ...
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... fear . It is the beauty of the truly divine part of Christianity that it ap- peals to love ; and if it then inspires melancholy , it is one of a nobler sort , animating us to endeavor and promising a state of things , to which the ...
... fear . It is the beauty of the truly divine part of Christianity that it ap- peals to love ; and if it then inspires melancholy , it is one of a nobler sort , animating us to endeavor and promising a state of things , to which the ...
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... fear that his pupil might prefer the religion of Jupiter to the religion of Christ . " - Baldwin's " Pantheon , " preface , p . 5. This philosophi- cal mythologist is of opinion that there was no ground for fear of that sort . We have ...
... fear that his pupil might prefer the religion of Jupiter to the religion of Christ . " - Baldwin's " Pantheon , " preface , p . 5. This philosophi- cal mythologist is of opinion that there was no ground for fear of that sort . We have ...
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... fear is most likely ) partly to a super- stition retained from his nurse , and partly to a determina- tion to construe an occasional fancy , thus warranted , into a conscious certainty , and so turn his interest with heaven to the ...
... fear is most likely ) partly to a super- stition retained from his nurse , and partly to a determina- tion to construe an occasional fancy , thus warranted , into a conscious certainty , and so turn his interest with heaven to the ...
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