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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... keeps him chiefly in Italy ; and when it takes him from Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering the rug- geder native poetry on the south . " — W. D. Howells ...
... keeps him chiefly in Italy ; and when it takes him from Italy , it only brings him into the Italian air of English sonnetry , -a sort of soft Devonshire coast , bordering the rug- geder native poetry on the south . " — W. D. Howells ...
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... keeping a good . fire from morning till night . I have also a reflective turn for an easy chair , and a very thinking attachment to com- fort in general . But of this as I proceed . Imprimis , then the morning is clear and cold ; time ...
... keeping a good . fire from morning till night . I have also a reflective turn for an easy chair , and a very thinking attachment to com- fort in general . But of this as I proceed . Imprimis , then the morning is clear and cold ; time ...
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... keep them to their warmth without it , particularly if you read ; and then , if you take in a newspaper , what a delightful change from the wet , raw , dabbing fold of paper when you first touch it , to the dry , crackling , crisp ...
... keep them to their warmth without it , particularly if you read ; and then , if you take in a newspaper , what a delightful change from the wet , raw , dabbing fold of paper when you first touch it , to the dry , crackling , crisp ...
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... keep us in doors , we have no excursiveness of wit and range of imagination . It seems to me that a great deal of good argument in refutation of these calum- nies has been wasted upon Monsieur du Bos and the Herr Winckelman : the one a ...
... keep us in doors , we have no excursiveness of wit and range of imagination . It seems to me that a great deal of good argument in refutation of these calum- nies has been wasted upon Monsieur du Bos and the Herr Winckelman : the one a ...
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... keep it from him , for there is no glare or scorch about it , but to intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth . It is thus that the greatest and wisest of mankind have sat and meditated ; a homely truism , per- haps ...
... keep it from him , for there is no glare or scorch about it , but to intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth . It is thus that the greatest and wisest of mankind have sat and meditated ; a homely truism , per- haps ...
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