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 115
First we heard small pipes playing , as if no bigger than hollow rushes that
whisper to the night winds ; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly
instrument was the scarce audible dirge ! It seemed to float over the stream ,
every foam ...
First we heard small pipes playing , as if no bigger than hollow rushes that
whisper to the night winds ; and more piteous than aught that trills from earthly
instrument was the scarce audible dirge ! It seemed to float over the stream ,
every foam ...
Page 148
Several choruses of beautiful women , richly dressed , and whose voices were
ravishing , began a concert , accompanied with all kinds of the most harmonious
instruments he had ever heard . When they were set down to table , the fairy ,
Pari ...
Several choruses of beautiful women , richly dressed , and whose voices were
ravishing , began a concert , accompanied with all kinds of the most harmonious
instruments he had ever heard . When they were set down to table , the fairy ,
Pari ...
Page 277
At this moment I heard a noise high up in the balloon , which made me fear it had
burst . I looked up , and saw nothing ; but , as I had my eyes fixed on the machine
, I felt a shock , the first I had experienced . The shock was upwards , and I cried ...
At this moment I heard a noise high up in the balloon , which made me fear it had
burst . I looked up , and saw nothing ; but , as I had my eyes fixed on the machine
, I felt a shock , the first I had experienced . The shock was upwards , and I cried ...
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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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