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 88
And first of all he caused a little square piller to be set near to every one of them ,
upon the which was written the partie's name sitting next it ; by which there
hanged also a lamp burning before each seat , in such sort as is used in
sepulchers .
And first of all he caused a little square piller to be set near to every one of them ,
upon the which was written the partie's name sitting next it ; by which there
hanged also a lamp burning before each seat , in such sort as is used in
sepulchers .
Page 317
Tell me he was a bad fellow at any rate - a mohawk - a gallows bird , or
something of that sort . Lane . I wish I could . But he was a young gentleman ,
plainly in liquor himself Lloyd . Didn't he carry himself very stiffy ? Lane .
Wonderfully , but ...
Tell me he was a bad fellow at any rate - a mohawk - a gallows bird , or
something of that sort . Lane . I wish I could . But he was a young gentleman ,
plainly in liquor himself Lloyd . Didn't he carry himself very stiffy ? Lane .
Wonderfully , but ...
Page 356
It shall now furnish us with a tragedy of a different sort , though pretending to be
equally founded on love , and ( as the paragraph advertisements say ) of “
startling interest . " Steele says he had it from a gentleman who was “ an eye -
witness of ...
It shall now furnish us with a tragedy of a different sort , though pretending to be
equally founded on love , and ( as the paragraph advertisements say ) of “
startling interest . " Steele says he had it from a gentleman who was “ an eye -
witness of ...
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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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