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 84
... seem straight , To mischief swift . Hope elevates , and joy Brightens his crest ; as when a wandering fire , Compact ... seems to be con- founded with the sleepy giant mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Knight of the Burning Pestle ...
... seem straight , To mischief swift . Hope elevates , and joy Brightens his crest ; as when a wandering fire , Compact ... seems to be con- founded with the sleepy giant mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Knight of the Burning Pestle ...
Page 177
... 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 all her sisters play'd . " But these vagaries of Spenser do not hinder him from being a poet as ...
... 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 all her sisters play'd . " But these vagaries of Spenser do not hinder him from being a poet as ...
Page 252
... seems to fall upon our paper at the very mention of the words , “ Gog and Ma- gog , ” — fine , mouth - filling , mysterious names ; and of whom ? Nobody knows . The names , we doubt not , have helped to keep up the in- terest ; but the ...
... seems to fall upon our paper at the very mention of the words , “ Gog and Ma- gog , ” — fine , mouth - filling , mysterious names ; and of whom ? Nobody knows . The names , we doubt not , have helped to keep up the in- terest ; but the ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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