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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... soul , even if his art were ever less than charming . But literature 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 ...
... soul , even if his art were ever less than charming . But literature 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 ...
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... 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 very opposite of Hazlitt . He loves everything , he catches the sunny side of ...
... 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 very opposite of Hazlitt . He loves everything , he catches the sunny side of ...
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... soul - wrapping epithet could have induced certain frigid connoisseurs to tax our climate with want of genius , supposing , forsooth , that because we have not the sunshine of the Southern countries , we have no other warmth for our ...
... soul - wrapping epithet could have induced certain frigid connoisseurs to tax our climate with want of genius , supposing , forsooth , that because we have not the sunshine of the Southern countries , we have no other warmth for our ...
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... souls , and to enter the very verge of whose atmosphere strikes beauty on the face , and felicity on the heart . Alas , that flights so lofty should ever be connected with earth by threads as slender as they are long , and that the ...
... souls , and to enter the very verge of whose atmosphere strikes beauty on the face , and felicity on the heart . Alas , that flights so lofty should ever be connected with earth by threads as slender as they are long , and that the ...
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... soul serene , Fit , on her birth - day , to salute the Queen . " The eulogies pronounced on his favorite beverage by Dr. Johnson , are too well known to be repeated here ; and the commendatory inscription of the Emperor Kien Long , to ...
... soul serene , Fit , on her birth - day , to salute the Queen . " The eulogies pronounced on his favorite beverage by Dr. Johnson , are too well known to be repeated here ; and the commendatory inscription of the Emperor Kien Long , to ...
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