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 164
It is not so easy to relate her story ; but she would be a charming person by the
time she was thirty , and make a delicate heart content ! His account of her is
certainly intended as a lesson to old gentlemen . “ The gentle lady , loose at
random ...
It is not so easy to relate her story ; but she would be a charming person by the
time she was thirty , and make a delicate heart content ! His account of her is
certainly intended as a lesson to old gentlemen . “ The gentle lady , loose at
random ...
Page 274
The “ flying chariot ” has been realized since Wilkins's time , in the car of the
balloon ; but the only persons that have ... to continue there , were the brothers
Stephen and Joseph de Montgolfier , papermakers at Lyons : the first person who
so ...
The “ flying chariot ” has been realized since Wilkins's time , in the car of the
balloon ; but the only persons that have ... to continue there , were the brothers
Stephen and Joseph de Montgolfier , papermakers at Lyons : the first person who
so ...
Page 359
To go to the other extreme of lovely generosity , how different is the wish
expressed by Shakespeare , in the contemplation of his own death : of
Shakespeare himself , observe— not of the dramatist speaking in the person of
another , but of the ...
To go to the other extreme of lovely generosity , how different is the wish
expressed by Shakespeare , in the contemplation of his own death : of
Shakespeare himself , observe— not of the dramatist speaking in the person of
another , but of 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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