A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
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His mind shows itself imbued with a rich knowledge of his subject , and this , illumined by the evidence of a thorough and unaffected liking for it , makes him irresistible . " - London Saturday Review . As a collection of Sonnets ...
His mind shows itself imbued with a rich knowledge of his subject , and this , illumined by the evidence of a thorough and unaffected liking for it , makes him irresistible . " - London Saturday Review . As a collection of Sonnets ...
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1 Something not to be replaced would be struck out of the gentler literature of our century , could the mind of Leigh Hunt cease to speak to us in a book . EDWARD BULWER , LORD Lytton . Into whatever he has written he has put a living ...
1 Something not to be replaced would be struck out of the gentler literature of our century , could the mind of Leigh Hunt cease to speak to us in a book . EDWARD BULWER , LORD Lytton . Into whatever he has written he has put a living ...
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Whose counsel find A balmy med'cine for my troubled mind ? Or whose discourse , with innocent delight , Shall fill me now , and cheat the wintry night , When hisses on my hearth the pulpy pear , And black'ning chestnut start and crackle ...
Whose counsel find A balmy med'cine for my troubled mind ? Or whose discourse , with innocent delight , Shall fill me now , and cheat the wintry night , When hisses on my hearth the pulpy pear , And black'ning chestnut start and crackle ...
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They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , — which ought to recommend them to the very hardest of their antagonists , — they are uninquiring laughers ...
They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , — which ought to recommend them to the very hardest of their antagonists , — they are uninquiring laughers ...
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Like all who are tyrannically given , and of a bullying turn of mind , which is by no means confined to those who talk loudest , these persons are apt to be as obsequious and dumb - stricken before men of whom they have a lofty opinion ...
Like all who are tyrannically given , and of a bullying turn of mind , which is by no means confined to those who talk loudest , these persons are apt to be as obsequious and dumb - stricken before men of whom they have a lofty opinion ...
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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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