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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... whose heat is uninhabitable even by spirit , or of black precipices , from which
swart fairies seem about to spring away ... coals tumbling together , reduce the
vision to chaos , and the huge profile of a gaunt and grinning face seems to make
...
... whose heat is uninhabitable even by spirit , or of black precipices , from which
swart fairies seem about to spring away ... coals tumbling together , reduce the
vision to chaos , and the huge profile of a gaunt and grinning face seems to make
...
Page 177
This is one of the liberties which he takes sometimes , especially when his rhyme
is burnt out , and he seems between sleep and waking . His Panope is very
different from Milton's : The air was calm , and on the level brine Sleek Panope
with ...
This is one of the liberties which he takes sometimes , especially when his rhyme
is burnt out , and he seems between sleep and waking . His Panope is very
different from Milton's : The air was calm , and on the level brine Sleek Panope
with ...
Page 252
SHADOW seems to fall upon our paper at the very mention of the words , “ Gog
and Magog , ” – fine , mouth - filling , mysterious names ; and of whom ? Nobody
knows . The names , we doubt not , have helped to keep up the interest ; but the ...
SHADOW seems to fall upon our paper at the very mention of the words , “ Gog
and Magog , ” – fine , mouth - filling , mysterious names ; and of whom ? Nobody
knows . The names , we doubt not , have helped to keep up the interest ; but 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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