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 174
... 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 sym- pathy , can fancy the sea ...
... 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 sym- pathy , can fancy the sea ...
Page 214
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 272
... 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 latter chapter did unwittingly agree with it ) there is ...
... 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 latter chapter did unwittingly agree with it ) there is ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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