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 44
Our hero waits with impatience to hear the celebrated person open his mouth ,
and is at length gratified ; but not hearing very distinctly , asks his next neighbor ,
in a serious and earnest whisper , what it was . “ Pray , sir , what was it that Mr. W.
Our hero waits with impatience to hear the celebrated person open his mouth ,
and is at length gratified ; but not hearing very distinctly , asks his next neighbor ,
in a serious and earnest whisper , what it was . “ Pray , sir , what was it that Mr. W.
Page 54
Hear how he rolls the harmony of his vowels . Nor was his name unheard , or
unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and
how he fell From heav'n , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal
...
Hear how he rolls the harmony of his vowels . Nor was his name unheard , or
unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and
how he fell From heav'n , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal
...
Page 361
Hear the verse of another :“ Yestreen when to the trembling string , The dance
gaed through the lighted ba ' , To thee my fancy took its wing , I sat , but neither
heard nor saw . Though this was fair and that was braw , And you the boast of a '
the ...
Hear the verse of another :“ Yestreen when to the trembling string , The dance
gaed through the lighted ba ' , To thee my fancy took its wing , I sat , but neither
heard nor saw . Though this was fair and that was braw , And you the boast of a '
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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