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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of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I must recur to poetry at once :Then shine
the bars , the cakes in smoke aspire , A sudden glory bursts from all the fire . The
conscious wight , rejoicing in the beat , Rubs the blithe knees , and toasts th ...
of a shaken carpet , - epithets again ; I must recur to poetry at once :Then shine
the bars , the cakes in smoke aspire , A sudden glory bursts from all the fire . The
conscious wight , rejoicing in the beat , Rubs the blithe knees , and toasts th ...
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The former , in his lines , upon hearing it commended by her Majesty , ” ranks it at
once above myrtle and laurel , and her Majesty , of course , agreed with him : “
Venus her myrtle , Phoebus has his bays ; Tea both excels , which she ...
The former , in his lines , upon hearing it commended by her Majesty , ” ranks it at
once above myrtle and laurel , and her Majesty , of course , agreed with him : “
Venus her myrtle , Phoebus has his bays ; Tea both excels , which she ...
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This is the finished evening ; this the quickener at once and the calmer of tired
thought ; this the spot where our better spirits await to exalt and enliven us , when
the daily and vulgar ones have discharged their duty ! " Questo č il Paradiso , Pių
...
This is the finished evening ; this the quickener at once and the calmer of tired
thought ; this the spot where our better spirits await to exalt and enliven us , when
the daily and vulgar ones have discharged their duty ! " Questo č il Paradiso , Pių
...
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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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| 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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