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 64
The author seems continually haunted by the fear that his pupil might prefer the
religion of Jupiter to the religion of Christ . " — Baldwin's “ Pantheon , ” preface , p
. 5. This philosophical mythologist is of opinion that there was no ground for fear ...
The author seems continually haunted by the fear that his pupil might prefer the
religion of Jupiter to the religion of Christ . " — Baldwin's “ Pantheon , ” preface , p
. 5. This philosophical mythologist is of opinion that there was no ground for fear ...
Page 68
Such , we fear , is the most reasonable conjecture , and such we take to be the
general impression ; though with a delicacy , equally singular and creditable to
them , mankind ( with rare exceptions ) seem to have agreed to say as little about
...
Such , we fear , is the most reasonable conjecture , and such we take to be the
general impression ; though with a delicacy , equally singular and creditable to
them , mankind ( with rare exceptions ) seem to have agreed to say as little about
...
Page 89
to come in unto them , and so sent them away home to their own houses , some
in coches , others in horselitters , guided and conducted by strange and unknown
persons , which gave them as great cause of fear as their former entertainment .
to come in unto them , and so sent them away home to their own houses , some
in coches , others in horselitters , guided and conducted by strange and unknown
persons , which gave them as great cause of fear as their former entertainment .
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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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