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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say that we can fancy green mossy locks well enough , provided there is a sweet
face under them . The painters have seldom ventured upon these anomalies ; but
the poets , whose especial business it is to have an universal sympathy , can ...
say that we can fancy green mossy locks well enough , provided there is a sweet
face under them . The painters have seldom ventured upon these anomalies ; but
the poets , whose especial business it is to have an universal sympathy , can ...
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Let the reader fancy a world , which had but one - half the lovely things in it which
ours possesses , or but imagination enough to conceive them , and then let him
fancy what it would think of us , and of our right to hope for other things ...
Let the reader fancy a world , which had but one - half the lovely things in it which
ours possesses , or but imagination enough to conceive them , and then let him
fancy what it would think of us , and of our right to hope for other things ...
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Having thus finished this discourse , I chanced upon a late fancy to this purpose ,
under the feigned name of Domingo Gonzales , written by a late reverend and
learned Bishop ( Godwin ) ; in which ( besides sundry particulars , wherein this ...
Having thus finished this discourse , I chanced upon a late fancy to this purpose ,
under the feigned name of Domingo Gonzales , written by a late reverend and
learned Bishop ( Godwin ) ; in which ( besides sundry particulars , wherein this ...
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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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| 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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