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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Page 13
To cats , indeed , I have an aversion , as animals that only affect a sociality ,
without caring a jot for any thing but their own luxury ; * and my tea - kettle , I
frankly confess , has long been displaced , or rather dismissed , by a bronze -
colored and ...
To cats , indeed , I have an aversion , as animals that only affect a sociality ,
without caring a jot for any thing but their own luxury ; * and my tea - kettle , I
frankly confess , has long been displaced , or rather dismissed , by a bronze -
colored and ...
Page 14
If there is any one thing that can reconcile me to the loss of my kettle , more than
another , it is that my fire has been left to itself : it has full room to breathe and to
blaze , and I can poke it as I please . What recollections does that idea excite ?
If there is any one thing that can reconcile me to the loss of my kettle , more than
another , it is that my fire has been left to itself : it has full room to breathe and to
blaze , and I can poke it as I please . What recollections does that idea excite ?
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Let Euclid rest , and Archimedes pause , And what the Swede intends , and what
the French To measure life learn thou betimes , and know Tow'rd solid good what
leads the nearest way . For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And 26 A ...
Let Euclid rest , and Archimedes pause , And what the Swede intends , and what
the French To measure life learn thou betimes , and know Tow'rd solid good what
leads the nearest way . For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And 26 A ...
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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though
wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends
a cheerful hour , refrains . " But the execution of this sonnet is not to be ...
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though
wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends
a cheerful hour , refrains . " But the execution of this sonnet is not to be ...
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The contemplatist keeps his easy posture , absorbed in his fancies ; and every
thing around him is still and serene . The stillness would even ferment in his ear ,
and whisper , as it were , of what the air contained ; but a minute coil , just ...
The contemplatist keeps his easy posture , absorbed in his fancies ; and every
thing around him is still and serene . The stillness would even ferment in his ear ,
and whisper , as it were , of what the air contained ; but a minute coil , just ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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