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 42
... Round Table " papers . When these essays were collected into a volume , Leigh Hunt's ini- tials were printed at the end of " A Day by the Fire ; " and Hazlitt , in the preface to this original edition of " The Round Table , " says ...
... Round Table " papers . When these essays were collected into a volume , Leigh Hunt's ini- tials were printed at the end of " A Day by the Fire ; " and Hazlitt , in the preface to this original edition of " The Round Table , " says ...
Page 84
... round , Kindled through agitation to a flame , Which oft , they say , some evil spirit attends , Hovering and blazing with delusive light , Misleads the amaz'd night - wanderer from his way To bogs and mires , and oft through pond or ...
... round , Kindled through agitation to a flame , Which oft , they say , some evil spirit attends , Hovering and blazing with delusive light , Misleads the amaz'd night - wanderer from his way To bogs and mires , and oft through pond or ...
Page 321
... round hat . He would lose something of the old and oracular by it . If in a round hat , he should keep out of sight , and not contradict the portrait of him- self at the top of his sheet of verses , with his bell and his beadle's staff ...
... round hat . He would lose something of the old and oracular by it . If in a round hat , he should keep out of sight , and not contradict the portrait of him- self at the top of his sheet of verses , with his bell and his beadle's staff ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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