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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... Hunt never lived . He luxuriatech over niceties of expression and revelled in a
delicious image or apt plırases ; he was always seeking the beautiful in
neglected fields of literature ; and to renew his acquaintance with the memorable
sonnets ...
... Hunt never lived . He luxuriatech over niceties of expression and revelled in a
delicious image or apt plırases ; he was always seeking the beautiful in
neglected fields of literature ; and to renew his acquaintance with the memorable
sonnets ...
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EDWARD BULWER , LORD LYTTON . Into whatever he has written he has put a
living soul ; and much of what he has produced is brilliant either with wit and
humor , or with tenderness and beauty . GEORGE L. CRAIK . Leigh Hunt seems
the ...
EDWARD BULWER , LORD LYTTON . Into whatever he has written he has put a
living soul ; and much of what he has produced is brilliant either with wit and
humor , or with tenderness and beauty . GEORGE L. CRAIK . Leigh Hunt seems
the ...
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Would Virgil , who delighted in husbandry , and whose first wish was to be a
philosopher , have complained of living in our pastures , and being the
countryman Newton ? Would Homer , the observer of character , the panegyrist of
freedom ...
Would Virgil , who delighted in husbandry , and whose first wish was to be a
philosopher , have complained of living in our pastures , and being the
countryman Newton ? Would Homer , the observer of character , the panegyrist of
freedom ...
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... though very good things , are not the only ones ; that these two young friends
lived in the imaginative , as well as the every - day world ; that the survivor most
probably missed the companion of his studies more on the banks of the Arethuse
...
... though very good things , are not the only ones ; that these two young friends
lived in the imaginative , as well as the every - day world ; that the survivor most
probably missed the companion of his studies more on the banks of the Arethuse
...
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Mr. Shelley beautifully applied to his young friend the distich of Plato upon
Agathon , who having been , he says , a morning star among the living , was now
an evening In his tragedy of Irene . Gibbon has noticed it somewhere in the
Decline ...
Mr. Shelley beautifully applied to his young friend the distich of Plato upon
Agathon , who having been , he says , a morning star among the living , was now
an evening In his tragedy of Irene . Gibbon has noticed it somewhere in the
Decline ...
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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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