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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... kind as well as degree . We are content with the fact that he has some virtue which makes us read every book of his we open , and which leaves us more his friend at the end than we were before . Indeed , it would be hard not to love so ...
... kind as well as degree . We are content with the fact that he has some virtue which makes us read every book of his we open , and which leaves us more his friend at the end than we were before . Indeed , it would be hard not to love so ...
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... kind , if we pursue it prop- erly , will hinder us from paying a critical attention to the fireside . It is sufficient , if our employments do not take us away from it , or at least from the genial warmth of a room which it adorns ...
... kind , if we pursue it prop- erly , will hinder us from paying a critical attention to the fireside . It is sufficient , if our employments do not take us away from it , or at least from the genial warmth of a room which it adorns ...
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... kind nymph would coyness feign , And hides but to be found again , These , these are joys the gods for youth ordain . ” DRYDEN . The Roman poet , however , though he occasionally boasts of his temperance , is too apt to lose sight of ...
... kind nymph would coyness feign , And hides but to be found again , These , these are joys the gods for youth ordain . ” DRYDEN . The Roman poet , however , though he occasionally boasts of his temperance , is too apt to lose sight of ...
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... kind , there is chess or draughts , which may be played on a tablet by the fire ; but nothing is like discourse , freely uttering the fancy as it comes , and varied , perhaps , with a little music , or with the perusal of some favorite ...
... kind , there is chess or draughts , which may be played on a tablet by the fire ; but nothing is like discourse , freely uttering the fancy as it comes , and varied , perhaps , with a little music , or with the perusal of some favorite ...
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... kind with their arch looks , and their conscious pretence of atti- tude , while a minute music tinkles in the ear , and Oberon gives his gentle order : 66 ' Through this house in glimmering light By the dead and drowsy fire , Every elf ...
... kind with their arch looks , and their conscious pretence of atti- tude , while a minute music tinkles in the ear , and Oberon gives his gentle order : 66 ' Through this house in glimmering light By the dead and drowsy fire , Every elf ...
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