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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... seems to have always been a gay sci- ence with him . We never see his Muse as the harsh step - mother she really was : we are made to think her a gentle liege - lady , served in the airiest spirit of chivalric devotion ; and in the ...
... seems to have always been a gay sci- ence with him . We never see his Muse as the harsh step - mother she really was : we are made to think her a gentle liege - lady , served in the airiest spirit of chivalric devotion ; and in the ...
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... seems the very opposite of Hazlitt . He loves everything , he catches the sunny side of everything , and , excepting that he has a few polemical antipathies , finds everything beautiful . HENRY CRABB ROBINSON . He is , in truth , one of ...
... seems the very opposite of Hazlitt . He loves everything , he catches the sunny side of everything , and , excepting that he has a few polemical antipathies , finds everything beautiful . HENRY CRABB ROBINSON . He is , in truth , one of ...
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... 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 narrow - minded , pedantic French- man , to whom the freedom of our genius was ...
... 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 narrow - minded , pedantic French- man , to whom the freedom of our genius was ...
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... seem about to spring away on sable wings ; then heat and fire are forgotten , and walled towns appear , and figures of ... seems to make a jest of all that has passed . During these creations of the eye , the thought roves about into a ...
... seem about to spring away on sable wings ; then heat and fire are forgotten , and walled towns appear , and figures of ... seems to make a jest of all that has passed . During these creations of the eye , the thought roves about into a ...
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... seem to have gone with it to sleep , leav- ing you to catch a waking sense of disenthralment , and to commune with a thousand airy visitants that come to play with innocent thoughts . Then , for imagination's sake , not for ...
... seem to have gone with it to sleep , leav- ing you to catch a waking sense of disenthralment , and to commune with a thousand airy visitants that come to play with innocent thoughts . Then , for imagination's sake , not for ...
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