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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... bliss , The pleasing whisper in the dark , The half unwilling , willing kiss , The
laugh that guides thee to the mark , When the kind nymph would coyness feign ,
And hides but to be found again , These , these are joys the gods for youth ordain
.
... bliss , The pleasing whisper in the dark , The half unwilling , willing kiss , The
laugh that guides thee to the mark , When the kind nymph would coyness feign ,
And hides but to be found again , These , these are joys the gods for youth ordain
.
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And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected Leigh Hunt Joseph Edward Babson. For
other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though wise
in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends a ...
And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected Leigh Hunt Joseph Edward Babson. For
other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though wise
in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends a ...
Page 47
... than by the light of their understanding , they as naturally gifted them with their
own faculties , moral and intellectual . Hence , the heathen gods were reflections
of the HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY . 47 A Popular View of the Heathen Mythology.
... than by the light of their understanding , they as naturally gifted them with their
own faculties , moral and intellectual . Hence , the heathen gods were reflections
of the HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY . 47 A Popular View of the Heathen Mythology.
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Hence , the heathen gods were reflections of the qualities most admired or feared
during the times in which they originated ; and to the same cause were owing the
inconsistencies and the vices palmed upon them by the stories of different ...
Hence , the heathen gods were reflections of the qualities most admired or feared
during the times in which they originated ; and to the same cause were owing the
inconsistencies and the vices palmed upon them by the stories of different ...
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The gods of Greece , taken in the popular view of them , were , upon the whole a
jovial company , occasionally dispersed about the world , and assembling on
Mount Olym* The hope of a happier state of things on earth , argues nothing ...
The gods of Greece , taken in the popular view of them , were , upon the whole a
jovial company , occasionally dispersed about the world , and assembling on
Mount Olym* The hope of a happier state of things on earth , argues 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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