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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66 gratify their appetites , was called “ indulging the genius ; " not to gratify them ,
was “ defrauding ” him . They seem to have forgotten that he had any thing to do
with restraint . Ovid , the most poetical of their poets , in all his uses of the words ...
66 gratify their appetites , was called “ indulging the genius ; " not to gratify them ,
was “ defrauding ” him . They seem to have forgotten that he had any thing to do
with restraint . Ovid , the most poetical of their poets , in all his uses of the words ...
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Cassius asked him who he was ; and the apparition answered , ' I am your evil
genius . ' Spenser has placed an evil genius at the gate of his false bower of bliss
, and old genius , or the fatherly principle of life and care , at the door of the great
...
Cassius asked him who he was ; and the apparition answered , ' I am your evil
genius . ' Spenser has placed an evil genius at the gate of his false bower of bliss
, and old genius , or the fatherly principle of life and care , at the door of the great
...
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safely be classed as follows , according to the most received ideas : The Deev ,
or evil genius . The Jinn , or good genius , if not otherwise qualified . The Pari , or
good female genius , always beneficent and beautiful . Individuals of all these ...
safely be classed as follows , according to the most received ideas : The Deev ,
or evil genius . The Jinn , or good genius , if not otherwise qualified . The Pari , or
good female genius , always beneficent and beautiful . Individuals of all these ...
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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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