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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Tomorrow our fire shall be trimmed anew ; and so , gentle reader , good night :
may the weariness I have caused you make sleep the pleasanter ! " Let no
lamenting cryes , nor dolefull tears , Be heard all night within , nor yet without ; Ne
let ...
Tomorrow our fire shall be trimmed anew ; and so , gentle reader , good night :
may the weariness I have caused you make sleep the pleasanter ! " Let no
lamenting cryes , nor dolefull tears , Be heard all night within , nor yet without ; Ne
let ...
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Farewell , good Messala ; Good night , Titinius : -noble , noble Cassius , Good
night , and good repose . Cassius . O , my dear brother ! This was an ill beginning
of the night : Never come such dizision ' tween our souls ! Let it not , Brutus . Bru .
Farewell , good Messala ; Good night , Titinius : -noble , noble Cassius , Good
night , and good repose . Cassius . O , my dear brother ! This was an ill beginning
of the night : Never come such dizision ' tween our souls ! Let it not , Brutus . Bru .
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I would sit and sing the whole of the day : I would fill the sea - halls with a voice of
power ; But at night I would roam abroad and play With the mermaids in and out
of the rocks , Dressing their hair with the white sea - flower ; And , holding them ...
I would sit and sing the whole of the day : I would fill the sea - halls with a voice of
power ; But at night I would roam abroad and play With the mermaids in and out
of the rocks , Dressing their hair with the white sea - flower ; And , holding them ...
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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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