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 50
... Happy opinions are the wine of the heart . What if this world be an ex- periment , part of which consists in our own co - operation , that is to say , in trying how far the inhabitants of it can acquire energy enough , and do credit ...
... Happy opinions are the wine of the heart . What if this world be an ex- periment , part of which consists in our own co - operation , that is to say , in trying how far the inhabitants of it can acquire energy enough , and do credit ...
Page 57
... happy to read his Hyperion aloud , and to have welcomed the new spirit among the choir of poets , with its Elysian beauty , melancholy grace . Mr. Shelley beautifully applied to his young friend the distich of Plato upon Agathon , who ...
... happy to read his Hyperion aloud , and to have welcomed the new spirit among the choir of poets , with its Elysian beauty , melancholy grace . Mr. Shelley beautifully applied to his young friend the distich of Plato upon Agathon , who ...
Page 75
... happy place if it were not for Time , who with his “ flaggy wings , ” goes playing the devil among the beds , to the great regret of Venus . It is an old story , and a true ; and the worst of it is , that Venus herself ( though the poet ...
... happy place if it were not for Time , who with his “ flaggy wings , ” goes playing the devil among the beds , to the great regret of Venus . It is an old story , and a true ; and the worst of it is , that Venus herself ( though the poet ...
Page 100
... happy ideas of them have almost superseded what remains of a darker creed in the minds of the people . The profound playful- ness of Shakespeare's wisdom , which humanized every thing it touched , and made it know its own value , found ...
... happy ideas of them have almost superseded what remains of a darker creed in the minds of the people . The profound playful- ness of Shakespeare's wisdom , which humanized every thing it touched , and made it know its own value , found ...
Page 116
... happy little poems have obtained for him ; and the late reprint of his works has done him no good . For one delicacy there are twenty pages of coarseness and insipidity . His epigrams , for the most part , are ludicrous only for the ...
... happy little poems have obtained for him ; and the late reprint of his works has done him no good . For one delicacy there are twenty pages of coarseness and insipidity . His epigrams , for the most part , are ludicrous only for the ...
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