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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How much better to think it his will that they should bestir themselves to improve
their own natures and the world ! How much better to think it consonant with his
nature that they should help to drain the “ vale of tears , " as they call it , just as ...
How much better to think it his will that they should bestir themselves to improve
their own natures and the world ! How much better to think it consonant with his
nature that they should help to drain the “ vale of tears , " as they call it , just as ...
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As knees are mentioned , we are to suppose that the fish commenced just below
them , possibly with a double tail . There is no predicating how such extraordinary
young ladies will terminate . Mr. Tennyson's mermaid is in better keeping ; as ...
As knees are mentioned , we are to suppose that the fish commenced just below
them , possibly with a double tail . There is no predicating how such extraordinary
young ladies will terminate . Mr. Tennyson's mermaid is in better keeping ; as ...
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gentleman from that of a centaur ) , can you risk your life for nothing better than
this ? Must you stake wife , children , mistress , father and mother , friends ,
fortune , love , and all which all of them may bring you , at no higher price than
the ...
gentleman from that of a centaur ) , can you risk your life for nothing better than
this ? Must you stake wife , children , mistress , father and mother , friends ,
fortune , love , and all which all of them may bring you , at no higher price than
the ...
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Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Publisher | Roberts Brothers, 1870 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 6 May 2015 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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