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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of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I must recur to poetry at once :Then shine
the bars , the cakes in smoke aspire , A sudden glory bursts from all the fire . The
conscious wight , rejoicing in the heat , Rubs the blithe knees , and toasts th ...
of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I must recur to poetry at once :Then shine
the bars , the cakes in smoke aspire , A sudden glory bursts from all the fire . The
conscious wight , rejoicing in the heat , Rubs the blithe knees , and toasts th ...
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... which it becomes it to resent ; and finally , its beauties , its proffered kindness ,
and its sprightly social effect are at once cut off from the company by the
interposition of those invidious and idle surfaces called This abuse is the more
ridiculous ...
... which it becomes it to resent ; and finally , its beauties , its proffered kindness ,
and its sprightly social effect are at once cut off from the company by the
interposition of those invidious and idle surfaces called This abuse is the more
ridiculous ...
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use semicircular dining - tables , with the base unoccupied towards the fireplace ,
and the whole annoyance vanishes at once ; the master or mistress might
preside in the middle , as was the custom with the Romans , and thus propriety
would ...
use semicircular dining - tables , with the base unoccupied towards the fireplace ,
and the whole annoyance vanishes at once ; the master or mistress might
preside in the middle , as was the custom with the Romans , and thus propriety
would ...
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... to take leave at once of these frigid connoisseurs , hear with what rapture he
describes one of those friendly parties , in which he passed his winter erenings ,
and which only wanted the finish of our better morality and our patent fireplaces ...
... to take leave at once of these frigid connoisseurs , hear with what rapture he
describes one of those friendly parties , in which he passed his winter erenings ,
and which only wanted the finish of our better morality and our patent fireplaces ...
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... that is to say , for the union of practical philosophy with absolute merriment , —
for light meals and unintoxicating glasses ; for refection that administers to
enjoyment , instead of repletions that at once constitute and contradict it .
... that is to say , for the union of practical philosophy with absolute merriment , —
for light meals and unintoxicating glasses ; for refection that administers to
enjoyment , instead of repletions that at once constitute and contradict it .
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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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