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 36
... lady who is charm- ing us all with her voice , or firing us , at the harp or piano , with the lightning of her fingers , should at the very mo- ment be trembling with cold . As to cards , which were invented for the solace of a mad ...
... lady who is charm- ing us all with her voice , or firing us , at the harp or piano , with the lightning of her fingers , should at the very mo- ment be trembling with cold . As to cards , which were invented for the solace of a mad ...
Page 43
... lady of the house . They are always at leisure to help you to good things , if not to say them . They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , which ought ...
... lady of the house . They are always at leisure to help you to good things , if not to say them . They will supply your absence of mind for you while you are talking , and believe you are taking sugar for pepper . Above all , which ought ...
Page 52
... lady who had resisted the violence of his virtue , was not to be believed whenever she spoke the truth ; or your brother became an owl or a flint - stone ; or your son was to become a criminal , or a madman , because his grandfather ...
... lady who had resisted the violence of his virtue , was not to be believed whenever she spoke the truth ; or your brother became an owl or a flint - stone ; or your son was to become a criminal , or a madman , because his grandfather ...
Page 81
... lady of any sort , not of necessity small and generally of the human size . With us , it is the elf of our northern an- cestors , and means exclusively the little creature inhabit- ing the woods and caverns , and dancing on the grass ...
... lady of any sort , not of necessity small and generally of the human size . With us , it is the elf of our northern an- cestors , and means exclusively the little creature inhabit- ing the woods and caverns , and dancing on the grass ...
Page 98
... ladies , and Ovid , and the Catholic diablerie . We had taken his fairies for the regular little dancers on the green ( induced by a line of his to that effect in the following passage ) ; but the author of the " Fairy Mythology " has ...
... ladies , and Ovid , and the Catholic diablerie . We had taken his fairies for the regular little dancers on the green ( induced by a line of his to that effect in the following passage ) ; but the author of the " Fairy Mythology " has ...
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