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 19
... latter age has given itself up , and which threatens to make the rising genera- tion regard a meal of repletion as the ultimatum of enjoy- ment . The inconvenience to which I allude is owing to the way in which we sit at dinner , for ...
... latter age has given itself up , and which threatens to make the rising genera- tion regard a meal of repletion as the ultimatum of enjoy- ment . The inconvenience to which I allude is owing to the way in which we sit at dinner , for ...
Page 139
... latter is the spelling . It would have looked affected , some years ago , to write pari for peri ; though , in the story just alluded to , an exception is made in favor of it but in these times , when the growth of general learning has ...
... latter is the spelling . It would have looked affected , some years ago , to write pari for peri ; though , in the story just alluded to , an exception is made in favor of it but in these times , when the growth of general learning has ...
Page 184
... latter , " Juve- nal , " says an Italian Mythology , " is of another opinion ; and Lycophron gives the title of Bacchantes to dissolute women . How the followers of the god of wine came to be thought so austere we know not . The ...
... latter , " Juve- nal , " says an Italian Mythology , " is of another opinion ; and Lycophron gives the title of Bacchantes to dissolute women . How the followers of the god of wine came to be thought so austere we know not . The ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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