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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A collection of delicious essays , thoroughly imbued with the characteristics of the
writer's genius and manner , and on topics especially calculated to bring out all
the charmıs of his genial spirit and develop all the niceties of his fluent diction ...
A collection of delicious essays , thoroughly imbued with the characteristics of the
writer's genius and manner , and on topics especially calculated to bring out all
the charmıs of his genial spirit and develop all the niceties of his fluent diction ...
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Whether Leigh Ilunt was a man of genius , or only of surpassing talent , is a
question which we willingly leave to the critics who find tweede dee diiterent from
tweedledum in kind as well as degree . We are content with the fact that he has
some ...
Whether Leigh Ilunt was a man of genius , or only of surpassing talent , is a
question which we willingly leave to the critics who find tweede dee diiterent from
tweedledum in kind as well as degree . We are content with the fact that he has
some ...
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... it belongs exclusively to our own ; and that nothing but a want of ideas
suggested by that soul - wrapping epithet could have induced certain frigid
connoisseurs to tax our climate with want of genius , - supposing , forsooth , that
because we ...
... it belongs exclusively to our own ; and that nothing but a want of ideas
suggested by that soul - wrapping epithet could have induced certain frigid
connoisseurs to tax our climate with want of genius , - supposing , forsooth , that
because we ...
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as ours , they would have acknowledged the advantages which our genius
presents in winter , and almost been ready to conclude , with old Cleveland , that
the sun himself was nothing but “ Heaven's coalery ; - A coal - pit rampant , or a
mine ...
as ours , they would have acknowledged the advantages which our genius
presents in winter , and almost been ready to conclude , with old Cleveland , that
the sun himself was nothing but “ Heaven's coalery ; - A coal - pit rampant , or a
mine ...
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But such is his misfortune . He has no eyes but for something sparkling or violent
; and no more expects to find any thing simple in genius , than any thing tolerable
in the want of it . Persons impatient of others ' deficiencies are , in fact , likely to ...
But such is his misfortune . He has no eyes but for something sparkling or violent
; and no more expects to find any thing simple in genius , than any thing tolerable
in the want of it . Persons impatient of others ' deficiencies are , in fact , likely to ...
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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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