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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They will supply your absence of mind for you are talking , and believe you are
taking sugar for pepper . Above all , — which ought to recommend them to the
very hardest of their antagonists , they are uninquiring laughers at jokes , and
most ...
They will supply your absence of mind for you are talking , and believe you are
taking sugar for pepper . Above all , — which ought to recommend them to the
very hardest of their antagonists , they are uninquiring laughers at jokes , and
most ...
Page 46
Again , as the best part of pleasure is that we have just mentioned , the best proof
of intellectual power is that of extracting fertility from barrenness , or so managing
the least cultivated mind , which we may happen to stumble upon , as to win ...
Again , as the best part of pleasure is that we have just mentioned , the best proof
of intellectual power is that of extracting fertility from barrenness , or so managing
the least cultivated mind , which we may happen to stumble upon , as to win ...
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to think they ought never to be cheerful , without calling to mind considerations
too vast and grand for cheerfulness ; thereby representing the object of their
reverence after the fashion of an officious and tyrannical parent , who should cast
the ...
to think they ought never to be cheerful , without calling to mind considerations
too vast and grand for cheerfulness ; thereby representing the object of their
reverence after the fashion of an officious and tyrannical parent , who should cast
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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