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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Taking up the religion of his country , as proclaimed by Hesiod and others , and
endeavoring to harmonize it with reason , he conceived that , agreeably to the
ranks and gradations which we fancy in nature , there must be intermediate
beings ...
Taking up the religion of his country , as proclaimed by Hesiod and others , and
endeavoring to harmonize it with reason , he conceived that , agreeably to the
ranks and gradations which we fancy in nature , there must be intermediate
beings ...
Page 104
... And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me , On the first view , to say , to
swear , I love thee . Bot . Methinks , mistress , you should have little reason for
that : and yet , to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together now
...
... And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me , On the first view , to say , to
swear , I love thee . Bot . Methinks , mistress , you should have little reason for
that : and yet , to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together now
...
Page 357
Her friends , upon hearing her story , would have found out means for her to
make her escape ; but she told them she had killed her dear count , because she
could not live without him ; and that , for the same reason , she was resolved to ...
Her friends , upon hearing her story , would have found out means for her to
make her escape ; but she told them she had killed her dear count , because she
could not live without him ; and that , for the same reason , she was resolved to ...
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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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