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 39
... sometimes a charm in watching out the decaying fire , -in getting closer and closer to it with tilted chair and knees against the bars , and letting the whole multitude of fancies , that work ́in the night silence , come whispering ...
... sometimes a charm in watching out the decaying fire , -in getting closer and closer to it with tilted chair and knees against the bars , and letting the whole multitude of fancies , that work ́in the night silence , come whispering ...
Page 44
... sometimes find out one of the caste by seeing him waiting with open mouth and impatient eyes for the brill- iant things which the great gentleman to whom he has been introduced is bound to utter . The party , perhaps , are waiting for ...
... sometimes find out one of the caste by seeing him waiting with open mouth and impatient eyes for the brill- iant things which the great gentleman to whom he has been introduced is bound to utter . The party , perhaps , are waiting for ...
Page 63
... sometimes to be distinct from bad ones , sometimes to be confounded with them . The vulgar supposed , with the Jesuit who wrote the " Pan- theon , " that every person had two demons assigned to him one a good demon who incited him to ...
... sometimes to be distinct from bad ones , sometimes to be confounded with them . The vulgar supposed , with the Jesuit who wrote the " Pan- theon , " that every person had two demons assigned to him one a good demon who incited him to ...
Page 64
... sometimes in good , admiring earnest ; and then the boys attend to him as gravely . See , for in- stance , the beginning of his chapter on Venus , which , if we read once at school , we read a thousand times , comparing it with the ...
... sometimes in good , admiring earnest ; and then the boys attend to him as gravely . See , for in- stance , the beginning of his chapter on Venus , which , if we read once at school , we read a thousand times , comparing it with the ...
Page 65
... sometimes to the general spirit of it , which was his own ; there is something at all times extremely elevating in his aspirations after the good and beautiful . St. Augustin complained that the reading of Plato made him proud . We do ...
... sometimes to the general spirit of it , which was his own ; there is something at all times extremely elevating in his aspirations after the good and beautiful . St. Augustin complained that the reading of Plato made him proud . We do ...
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