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 53
The less they were seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ;
for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . The truest grandeur is moral .
When there is a heavenquake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; -- when
Apollo ...
The less they were seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ;
for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . The truest grandeur is moral .
When there is a heavenquake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; -- when
Apollo ...
Page 255
... of Alexander's dreadful trumpets grow less and less , till at length they are “
silent . ” What has happened ? Is the king dead ? Have his army grown less and
less , or feebler and feebler , so as to be unable to blow them ? Are they all dead
?
... of Alexander's dreadful trumpets grow less and less , till at length they are “
silent . ” What has happened ? Is the king dead ? Have his army grown less and
less , or feebler and feebler , so as to be unable to blow them ? Are they all dead
?
Page 264
Poetry itself may be glad of any compliment paid it , at an elevation of three miles
and a half above terra firma ! It is not improbable that they who feel apprehensive
at the idea of ascending in a balloon , would feel less so when fairly up in the ...
Poetry itself may be glad of any compliment paid it , at an elevation of three miles
and a half above terra firma ! It is not improbable that they who feel apprehensive
at the idea of ascending in a balloon , would feel less so when fairly up in 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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