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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... Human Being and a Crowd ; The " The Seer . " " " Cat by the Fire ; Put up a Picture in your Room ; A Gentleman - Saint ; The Eve of St. Agnes ; A " Now , descriptive of a cold day ; Ice , with Poets upon it ; The Piano - forte ; Why ...
... Human Being and a Crowd ; The " The Seer . " " " Cat by the Fire ; Put up a Picture in your Room ; A Gentleman - Saint ; The Eve of St. Agnes ; A " Now , descriptive of a cold day ; Ice , with Poets upon it ; The Piano - forte ; Why ...
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... human , full of fine fancies and verbal niceties , possessing a loving if not a " learned spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his composition . E. P. WHIPPLE . I have been reading some of Leigh Hunt's works lately , and am ...
... human , full of fine fancies and verbal niceties , possessing a loving if not a " learned spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his composition . E. P. WHIPPLE . I have been reading some of Leigh Hunt's works lately , and am ...
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... human journey ; then coaches and camels , and barking dogs as large as either , and forms that combine every shape and suggest every fancy , till at last , the ragged coals tumbling together , reduce the vision to chaos , and the huge ...
... human journey ; then coaches and camels , and barking dogs as large as either , and forms that combine every shape and suggest every fancy , till at last , the ragged coals tumbling together , reduce the vision to chaos , and the huge ...
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... humanity , and to whom apply our healing balsams , we have thought fit , in our present number , to take the part of a very numerous and ill - treated body of persons , known by the various appellations of commonplace people , dull ...
... humanity , and to whom apply our healing balsams , we have thought fit , in our present number , to take the part of a very numerous and ill - treated body of persons , known by the various appellations of commonplace people , dull ...
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... of his deficiency in the other ; for intellectual qualities are not the only ones that excite - the reflections , or conciliate the regard , of the truly intel- ― ligent , of those who can study human nature ON COMMONPLACE PEOPLE . 45.
... of his deficiency in the other ; for intellectual qualities are not the only ones that excite - the reflections , or conciliate the regard , of the truly intel- ― ligent , of those who can study human nature ON COMMONPLACE PEOPLE . 45.
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