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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restoring his chair to the fireplace , seats himself right before it in a reclining
posture , his feet apart upon the fender , his eyes bent down towarıs the grate ,
his arms on the chair's elbows , one hand hanging clown , and the palm of the
other ...
restoring his chair to the fireplace , seats himself right before it in a reclining
posture , his feet apart upon the fender , his eyes bent down towarıs the grate ,
his arms on the chair's elbows , one hand hanging clown , and the palm of the
other ...
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A coal falling in , a fleettering fume , a miniature mockery of a flash of lightning , -
nothing escapes the eye and the imagination . Sometimes a little flame appears
at the corner of the grate like a quivering spangle ; sometimes it swells out at top
...
A coal falling in , a fleettering fume , a miniature mockery of a flash of lightning , -
nothing escapes the eye and the imagination . Sometimes a little flame appears
at the corner of the grate like a quivering spangle ; sometimes it swells out at top
...
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During these creations of the eye , the thought roves about into a hundred
abstractions , some of them suggested by the fire , some of them suggested by
that suggestion , some of them arising from the general sensation of comfort and
...
During these creations of the eye , the thought roves about into a hundred
abstractions , some of them suggested by the fire , some of them suggested by
that suggestion , some of them arising from the general sensation of comfort and
...
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How ardent is the roominess within the bars ! How airily do the volumes of smoke
course each other up the chimney , like so many fantastic and indefinite spirits ,
while the eye in vain endeavors to accompany any one of them ! The flames are ...
How ardent is the roominess within the bars ! How airily do the volumes of smoke
course each other up the chimney , like so many fantastic and indefinite spirits ,
while the eye in vain endeavors to accompany any one of them ! The flames are ...
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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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| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Publisher | Roberts Brothers, 1870 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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