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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... Sweet Music produces Sadness ; Dancing and Dancers ; Twelfth Night ; Rules in Making Presents ; Romance of Commonplace ; Amiable- ness Superior to Common Intellect ; Life After Death , - Belief in Spirits ; On Death and Burial ; On ...
... Sweet Music produces Sadness ; Dancing and Dancers ; Twelfth Night ; Rules in Making Presents ; Romance of Commonplace ; Amiable- ness Superior to Common Intellect ; Life After Death , - Belief in Spirits ; On Death and Burial ; On ...
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... sweet possession ; the poet , thoughtful as the one , and ardent as the other , springs off at once above the world , treads every turn of the harmonious spheres , darts up with gleaming wings through the sunshine of a thousand systems ...
... sweet possession ; the poet , thoughtful as the one , and ardent as the other , springs off at once above the world , treads every turn of the harmonious spheres , darts up with gleaming wings through the sunshine of a thousand systems ...
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... sweet music of speech " is heard in its best harmony , differing only for apter sweetness , and mingling but for happier participation , while the mu- tual sense smilingly blends in with every rising meas- ure 36 A DAY BY THE FIRE .
... sweet music of speech " is heard in its best harmony , differing only for apter sweetness , and mingling but for happier participation , while the mu- tual sense smilingly blends in with every rising meas- ure 36 A DAY BY THE FIRE .
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... sweet as well as powerful , when Juno goes to Venus to borrow her girdle , in order that she may appear irresistible in the eyes of Jupiter ; it is then we feel all the force and beauty of the Greek fables ; and an inti- macy with their ...
... sweet as well as powerful , when Juno goes to Venus to borrow her girdle , in order that she may appear irresistible in the eyes of Jupiter ; it is then we feel all the force and beauty of the Greek fables ; and an inti- macy with their ...
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... sweet grove Of Daphne , by Orontes , and the inspir'd Castalian spring , might with this Paradise Of Eden strive ; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton , where old Cham Whom gentiles Ammon call and Lybian Jove , Hid Amalthea ...
... sweet grove Of Daphne , by Orontes , and the inspir'd Castalian spring , might with this Paradise Of Eden strive ; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton , where old Cham Whom gentiles Ammon call and Lybian Jove , Hid Amalthea ...
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