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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And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected Leigh Hunt Joseph Edward Babson. time . A passage in a wood has been often trod , but we tread it again . The pleasure is ever young , though the path is old . So- When the sun begins to fling His ...
And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected Leigh Hunt Joseph Edward Babson. time . A passage in a wood has been often trod , but we tread it again . The pleasure is ever young , though the path is old . So- When the sun begins to fling His ...
Page 80
... passage to read at twilight ; or before put- ting out the candles , in some old country house . There is yet one more passage which we must quote from Milton , about a genius . It concerns also a very de- moniacal circumstance , the ...
... passage to read at twilight ; or before put- ting out the candles , in some old country house . There is yet one more passage which we must quote from Milton , about a genius . It concerns also a very de- moniacal circumstance , the ...
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... passage subsequently quoted , tells us in speaking of these fairies , that there is " a bigger kind of them , called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows , that would in those superstitious times grinde corne for a messe of milke ...
... passage subsequently quoted , tells us in speaking of these fairies , that there is " a bigger kind of them , called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows , that would in those superstitious times grinde corne for a messe of milke ...
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... passage we remem- ber to have met with , implying any determinate notion of stature , is in favor of the little . We here give it out of an old and not very sage author . " After the victory had and gotten against the Gethes , the ...
... passage we remem- ber to have met with , implying any determinate notion of stature , is in favor of the little . We here give it out of an old and not very sage author . " After the victory had and gotten against the Gethes , the ...
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... passage , M. Mallet says ( under correction of his translator ) , " We may discover here one of the effects of that ignorant prejudice , which hath made us for so many years regard all arts and handicrafts as the occu- pation of mean ...
... passage , M. Mallet says ( under correction of his translator ) , " We may discover here one of the effects of that ignorant prejudice , which hath made us for so many years regard all arts and handicrafts as the occu- pation of mean ...
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