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 53
... side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a heaven- quake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; — when Apollo comes down in his wrath " like night - time ...
... side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a heaven- quake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; — when Apollo comes down in his wrath " like night - time ...
Page 332
... side of a mother , who used to speak of the great persons and transactions in the pictures on each side of her with a hushing reverence as if they were really present . But the pictures were not there , neither Cupid with his doves ...
... side of a mother , who used to speak of the great persons and transactions in the pictures on each side of her with a hushing reverence as if they were really present . But the pictures were not there , neither Cupid with his doves ...
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... Side - Boxes , and seemed drawn up in a kind of Battle - Array one against another . After a short Survey of them , I found they were Patched differently ; the Faces on one Hand being spotted on the Right side of the Forehead , and ...
... Side - Boxes , and seemed drawn up in a kind of Battle - Array one against another . After a short Survey of them , I found they were Patched differently ; the Faces on one Hand being spotted on the Right side of the Forehead , and ...
Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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