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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... lady , served in the airiest 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 ...
... lady , served in the airiest 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 ...
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... ladies who may happen to form part of your family , — of your wife in particular , if have one , you to avoid the niggling and pinching aspect of cold ; it takes away the harmony of her features , and the graces of her behavior ; while ...
... ladies who may happen to form part of your family , — of your wife in particular , if have one , you to avoid the niggling and pinching aspect of cold ; it takes away the harmony of her features , and the graces of her behavior ; while ...
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... ladies after dinner , a gross violation of those chivalrous graces of life , for which modern times are so highly in- debted to the persons whom they are pleased to term Gothic . And here I might digress , with no great impro- priety ...
... ladies after dinner , a gross violation of those chivalrous graces of life , for which modern times are so highly in- debted to the persons whom they are pleased to term Gothic . And here I might digress , with no great impro- priety ...
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... ladies fairest ben , or best dancing , Or which of hem can carole best or sing , Ne who most felingly speketh of love ; What haukis sitten on the perch above , What houndis liggen on the flour , adoun , - Of all this now make I no ...
... ladies fairest ben , or best dancing , Or which of hem can carole best or sing , Ne who most felingly speketh of love ; What haukis sitten on the perch above , What houndis liggen on the flour , adoun , - Of all this now make I no ...
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... lady of my acquaintance , " near and dear , " as they say in Parliament , —will tell me of this fault twenty times ... ladies , and giving a poetic warmth to their face and hair ! I need not mention all the good things that are said at ...
... lady of my acquaintance , " near and dear , " as they say in Parliament , —will tell me of this fault twenty times ... ladies , and giving a poetic warmth to their face and hair ! I need not mention all the good things that are said at ...
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