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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His mind how's it - cit imbued wish a rich knowledge of his subject , and this ,
illumined by the evidence of a thorough and unaffected liking for it , makes him
irresistible . ” — Lorcon Sirierny krziar's “ As a collection of Sonnets , it is not only
the ...
His mind how's it - cit imbued wish a rich knowledge of his subject , and this ,
illumined by the evidence of a thorough and unaffected liking for it , makes him
irresistible . ” — Lorcon Sirierny krziar's “ As a collection of Sonnets , it is not only
the ...
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Something not to be replaced would be struck out of the gentler literature of our
century , could the mind of Leigh Hunt cease to speak to us in a book . EDWARD
BULWER , LORD LYTTON . Into whatever he has written he has put a living soul
...
Something not to be replaced would be struck out of the gentler literature of our
century , could the mind of Leigh Hunt cease to speak to us in a book . EDWARD
BULWER , LORD LYTTON . Into whatever he has written he has put a living soul
...
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Whose counsel find A balmy med'cine for my troubled mind ? Or whose
discourse , with innocent delight , Shall fill me now , and cheat the wintry night ,
When hisses on my hearth the pulpy pear , And black'ning chestnut start and
crackle there ...
Whose counsel find A balmy med'cine for my troubled mind ? Or whose
discourse , with innocent delight , Shall fill me now , and cheat the wintry night ,
When hisses on my hearth the pulpy pear , And black'ning chestnut start and
crackle there ...
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Idle fancies these , and incomprehensible to minds clogged with every - clay
earthliness ; but not useless , either as an exercise of the invention , or even as
adding consciousness to the range and destiny of the soul . They will occupy us
too ...
Idle fancies these , and incomprehensible to minds clogged with every - clay
earthliness ; but not useless , either as an exercise of the invention , or even as
adding consciousness to the range and destiny of the soul . They will occupy us
too ...
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They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe
you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , which ought to recommend them to
the very hardest of their antagonists , — they are uninquiring laughers at jokes ...
They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe
you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , which ought to recommend them to
the very hardest of their antagonists , — they are uninquiring laughers at jokes ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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