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 47
... sense , and inform him that it is the grossest of all coxcombry to dwell with admiration on a piece of in- sensibility , however beautiful , and find nothing to excite pleasing or profitable reflections in the commonest of his fellow ...
... sense , and inform him that it is the grossest of all coxcombry to dwell with admiration on a piece of in- sensibility , however beautiful , and find nothing to excite pleasing or profitable reflections in the commonest of his fellow ...
Page 49
... senses , it is , in truth , im- possible to argue with any certainty from things human to things divine . The only service to all appearance , which our faculties can do for us in these questions , is to save us from the admission of ...
... senses , it is , in truth , im- possible to argue with any certainty from things human to things divine . The only service to all appearance , which our faculties can do for us in these questions , is to save us from the admission of ...
Page 54
... sense of universality knows how to reconcile the real beauty of all creeds ; and the gods survive in the midst of his own epic , lifted by his own hand above the degrada- tion to which he has thrust them . Vulcan , he says , was called ...
... sense of universality knows how to reconcile the real beauty of all creeds ; and the gods survive in the midst of his own epic , lifted by his own hand above the degrada- tion to which he has thrust them . Vulcan , he says , was called ...
Page 57
... sense ; but there he stopped . He might have as soon undertaken to de- scribe a real piece of old poetical beauty , or passion either , as clap his wig on the head of Apollo . He laughed with reason at Prior , for comparing his Chloes ...
... sense ; but there he stopped . He might have as soon undertaken to de- scribe a real piece of old poetical beauty , or passion either , as clap his wig on the head of Apollo . He laughed with reason at Prior , for comparing his Chloes ...
Page 59
... sense in which demon is now taken , originated with the Fathers of the Church , who , assuming that a pagan intelligence must be a bad one , caused the word to become synonymous with devil . But there are few things more remarkable than ...
... sense in which demon is now taken , originated with the Fathers of the Church , who , assuming that a pagan intelligence must be a bad one , caused the word to become synonymous with devil . But there are few things more remarkable than ...
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