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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... Spirits ; On Death and Burial ; On Washer- women ; The Nightmare ; The Flor- entine Lovers ; Rhyme and Reason ... spirit and develop all the niceties of his fluent diction , and worthy of being domesticated among those choice ...
... Spirits ; On Death and Burial ; On Washer- women ; The Nightmare ; The Flor- entine Lovers ; Rhyme and Reason ... spirit and develop all the niceties of his fluent diction , and worthy of being domesticated among those choice ...
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... spirit of chivalric devotion ; and in the Essay in this ' Book of the Sonnet ' her aspect is as sunny as any the poet has ever shown us . It " The Essay is printed for the first time , and it was written in Hunt's old age ; but it is ...
... spirit of chivalric devotion ; and in the Essay in this ' Book of the Sonnet ' her aspect is as sunny as any the poet has ever shown us . It " The Essay is printed for the first time , and it was written in Hunt's old age ; but it is ...
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... spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his composition . E. P. WHIPPLE . I have been reading some of Leigh Hunt's works lately , and am surprised at the freshness , and sweetness , and Christian , not lax , spirit of human ...
... spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his composition . E. P. WHIPPLE . I have been reading some of Leigh Hunt's works lately , and am surprised at the freshness , and sweetness , and Christian , not lax , spirit of human ...
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... Spirit that was said to have waited on Socrates On the Genii of Antiquity and the Poets . 559 59 70 81 Fairies • · Genii and Fairies of the East , the Arabian Nights , & c . 124 • The Satyr of Mythology and the Poets The Nymphs of ...
... Spirit that was said to have waited on Socrates On the Genii of Antiquity and the Poets . 559 59 70 81 Fairies • · Genii and Fairies of the East , the Arabian Nights , & c . 124 • The Satyr of Mythology and the Poets The Nymphs of ...
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... spirit , or of black precipices , from which swart fairies seem about to spring away on sable wings ; then heat and fire are forgotten , and walled towns appear , and figures of unknown animals , and far - distant countries scarcely to ...
... spirit , or of black precipices , from which swart fairies seem about to spring away on sable wings ; then heat and fire are forgotten , and walled towns appear , and figures of unknown animals , and far - distant countries scarcely to ...
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