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 15
... young fellow , " will send her . " Her mouth is opened accordingly , the fire of her eyes is dead , her face assumes a doleful air ; up walks the aforesaid heaven or mischievous young fellow ( young Ouranos , Hesiod would have called ...
... young fellow , " will send her . " Her mouth is opened accordingly , the fire of her eyes is dead , her face assumes a doleful air ; up walks the aforesaid heaven or mischievous young fellow ( young Ouranos , Hesiod would have called ...
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... young roses , and whose air is music , whose waters are the liquid diamond , whose light is as radiance through crystal , whose dwellings are laurel bowers , whose language is poetry , whose inhabitants are congenial souls , and to ...
... young roses , and whose air is music , whose waters are the liquid diamond , whose light is as radiance through crystal , whose dwellings are laurel bowers , whose language is poetry , whose inhabitants are congenial souls , and to ...
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... young or old , talkative or contemplative . If there is music , a good fire will be particularly grateful to the performers , who are often seated at the farther end of the room ; for it is really shameful that a lady who is charm- ing ...
... young or old , talkative or contemplative . If there is music , a good fire will be particularly grateful to the performers , who are often seated at the farther end of the room ; for it is really shameful that a lady who is charm- ing ...
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... Young Bacchus , from his step - dame Rhea's eye . Milton had , in fact , settled this question of the inde- structibility of paganism in his youth . His college exer- cises showing that " nature could not grow old , " showed also that ...
... Young Bacchus , from his step - dame Rhea's eye . Milton had , in fact , settled this question of the inde- structibility of paganism in his youth . His college exer- cises showing that " nature could not grow old , " showed also that ...
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... young friends lived in the imaginative , as well as the every - day world ; that the survivor most probably missed the com- panion of his studies more on the banks of the Arethuse and the Mincius , than he did in the college grounds ...
... young friends lived in the imaginative , as well as the every - day world ; that the survivor most probably missed the com- panion of his studies more on the banks of the Arethuse and the Mincius , than he did in the college grounds ...
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