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 139
... pari ; and in Richardson's Dic- tionary the latter is the spelling . It would have looked affected , some years ago , to write pari for peri ; though , in the story just alluded to , an exception is made in favor of it but in these ...
... pari ; and in Richardson's Dic- tionary the latter is the spelling . It would have looked affected , some years ago , to write pari for peri ; though , in the story just alluded to , an exception is made in favor of it but in these ...
Page 142
... Pari is the female genius , beautiful and beneficent . D'Herbelot says there are male Paries , and he gives the ... Pari . At any rate , it would appear as absurd to us of the West , as if any- body were to discover that the three Graces ...
... Pari is the female genius , beautiful and beneficent . D'Herbelot says there are male Paries , and he gives the ... Pari . At any rate , it would appear as absurd to us of the West , as if any- body were to discover that the three Graces ...
Page 151
... Pari , her sister ; how many wonders she might have drawn out of her well , or how far the Pari could not inhabit a hole in the well on occasion , as the fairies of Italy do in the old stones of Fiesole . She was , no doubt , distinct ...
... Pari , her sister ; how many wonders she might have drawn out of her well , or how far the Pari could not inhabit a hole in the well on occasion , as the fairies of Italy do in the old stones of Fiesole . She was , no doubt , distinct ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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