A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
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... even if his art were ever less than charming . But literature seems to have always been a gay science with him . We never see his Muse as the harsh step - mother she really was : we are made to think her a gentle liege - lady ...
... even if his art were ever less than charming . But literature seems to have always been a gay science with him . We never see his Muse as the harsh step - mother she really was : we are made to think her a gentle liege - lady ...
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Nor is it the look of the newspaper only which the fire must render complete : it is the interest of the ladies who may happen to form part of your family , — of your wife in particular , if you have one , — to avoid the niggling and ...
Nor is it the look of the newspaper only which the fire must render complete : it is the interest of the ladies who may happen to form part of your family , — of your wife in particular , if you have one , — to avoid the niggling and ...
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... an end to the barbarous custom of sending away the ladies after dinner , a gross violation of those chivalrous graces of life , for which modern times are so highly indebted to the persons whom they are pleased to term Gothic .
... an end to the barbarous custom of sending away the ladies after dinner , a gross violation of those chivalrous graces of life , for which modern times are so highly indebted to the persons whom they are pleased to term Gothic .
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“ The minstralcie , the service at the feste , The grete yeftes to the most and leste , The riche array of Theseus ' paleis , Ne who sate first , ne last upon the deis , What ladies sairest ben , or best dancing , Or which of hem can ...
“ The minstralcie , the service at the feste , The grete yeftes to the most and leste , The riche array of Theseus ' paleis , Ne who sate first , ne last upon the deis , What ladies sairest ben , or best dancing , Or which of hem can ...
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We may easily imagine the smoke and annoyance which this custom must have occasioned , not to mention the bad complexions which are caught by hanging over a fuming - pan , as the faces of the Spanish ladies bear melancholy witness .
We may easily imagine the smoke and annoyance which this custom must have occasioned , not to mention the bad complexions which are caught by hanging over a fuming - pan , as the faces of the Spanish ladies bear melancholy witness .
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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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