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To cats , indeed , I have an aversion , as animals that only affect a sociality ,
without caring a jot for any thing but their own luxury ; * and my tea - kettle , I
frankly confess , has long been displaced , or rather dismissed , by a bronze -
colored and ...
To cats , indeed , I have an aversion , as animals that only affect a sociality ,
without caring a jot for any thing but their own luxury ; * and my tea - kettle , I
frankly confess , has long been displaced , or rather dismissed , by a bronze -
colored and ...
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If there is any one thing that can reconcile me to the loss of my kettle , more than
another , it is that my fire has been left to itself : it has full room to breathe and to
blaze , and I can poke it as I please . What recollections does that idea excite ?
If there is any one thing that can reconcile me to the loss of my kettle , more than
another , it is that my fire has been left to itself : it has full room to breathe and to
blaze , and I can poke it as I please . What recollections does that idea excite ?
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11 For other things mild Heav ' n a time ordains , And disapproves that care ,
though wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when
God sends a cheerful hour , refrains . " But the execution of this sonnet is not to
be ...
11 For other things mild Heav ' n a time ordains , And disapproves that care ,
though wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when
God sends a cheerful hour , refrains . " But the execution of this sonnet is not to
be ...
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But , on the present occasion , I forbear to use the poker ; there is no need of it :
every thing is comfortable , — every thing snug and sufficient . How equable is
the warmth around us ! How cherishing this ruġ to one ' s feet ! How complacent
the ...
But , on the present occasion , I forbear to use the poker ; there is no need of it :
every thing is comfortable , — every thing snug and sufficient . How equable is
the warmth around us ! How cherishing this ruġ to one ' s feet ! How complacent
the ...
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... is warm to the cold , and cooling to the warm , I confess , as Montaigne would
have said , that I prefer coffee , — particularly in my political capacity :“ Coffee ,
that makes the Politician wise To see through all things with his half - shut eyes .
... is warm to the cold , and cooling to the warm , I confess , as Montaigne would
have said , that I prefer coffee , — particularly in my political capacity :“ Coffee ,
that makes the Politician wise To see through all things with his half - shut eyes .
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Page 80 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 27 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 359 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Page 199 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 117 - As bees In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs: so thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Page 83 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
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Page 323 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 26 - Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench ; To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth that, after, no repenting draws : Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intends, and what the French.
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| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | S. Low, Son and Marston, 1870 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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