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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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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... the enjoyment of the fireside , humanly speaking , is not absolutely perfect , as I
have latterly been convinced by a variety of incontestable arguments in the
shape of headaches , rheumatisms , mote - haunted eyes , and other logical
appeals ...
... the enjoyment of the fireside , humanly speaking , is not absolutely perfect , as I
have latterly been convinced by a variety of incontestable arguments in the
shape of headaches , rheumatisms , mote - haunted eyes , and other logical
appeals ...
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I am speaking , of course , not of our commonplace eaters and drinkers , but of
our classical arbiters of pleasure , as contrasted with those of other countries ;
these , it is observable , have all delighted in Horace , and copied him as far as
their ...
I am speaking , of course , not of our commonplace eaters and drinkers , but of
our classical arbiters of pleasure , as contrasted with those of other countries ;
these , it is observable , have all delighted in Horace , and copied him as far as
their ...
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could fancy was at an incalculable distance from it , -an emanation , a being
deputed , a sort of spiritual incarnation of one of the divine thoughts ; if we may so
speak without absurdity and without blame . Plato , for instance , observing the ...
could fancy was at an incalculable distance from it , -an emanation , a being
deputed , a sort of spiritual incarnation of one of the divine thoughts ; if we may so
speak without absurdity and without blame . Plato , for instance , observing the ...
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Wharton says further , that “ poetry is not always unconnected with passion , ” and
then gives an instance out of the poem where Milton speaks of the body of his
lost friend . But he might have added that poetry itself is a passion ; that Fleet ...
Wharton says further , that “ poetry is not always unconnected with passion , ” and
then gives an instance out of the poem where Milton speaks of the body of his
lost friend . But he might have added that poetry itself is a passion ; that Fleet ...
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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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