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...; and of all the tears for her that they shed to earth from their eyes the goddesses made a fountain, which they call Cleite, * the illustrious name ... ...is lord’s return. For in such ways did Heracles nurture him from his first childhood when he had carried him off from the house of his father, goodly ... ...eroes, though I have balanced many plans.” (ll. 22 29) She ended, and the goddesses fixed their eyes on the ground at their feet, brooding apart; and... ...a golden comb and about to braid up the long tresses; but when she saw the goddesses before her, she stayed and called them within, and rose from her ... ...r so long? Why have ye come, not too frequent visitors before, chief among goddesses that ye are?” (ll. 55 75) And to her Hera replied: “Thou dost mo... ...ve cause to blame myself thereafter.” (ll. 100 105) So she spake, and the goddesses smiled and looked at each other. But Cypris again spoke, vexed at...

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...er. Then I recall, a little later, a secret abject adoration for the white goddesses of the Crystal Pal- ace. Not for any particular one of them that ... ... know that I didn’t connect them with the idea of the loved and worshipped goddesses at all, because I remember when I first saw the goddess in a real... ... me that a certain smiling and dainty girl could make herself into all the goddesses of my 36 The Secret Places of the Heart dreams. I had but to win... ... more and more urgent. ‘This will not do. This is not love. Where are your goddesses? This is not love.’ … And I was unfaithful to my wife within four... ...s lips. “None,” he delivered judicially. “If one were able to recall one’s childhood—at the age of about twelve or thirteen—when the artistic impulse ... ...their yesterday selves, of the stone age savages as a phase, in their late childhood, and of this great world order Sir Richmond foresaw as a day wher... ...- ered Latin Europe…. For you and me anyhow this is our past, this was our childhood, and this is our land.” He inter- rupted laughing as she was abou... ...d of herself at first in general terms. “Life comes on anyone with a rush, childhood seems lasting for ever and then suddenly one tears into life,” sh... ...ry and fixity of purpose out of these raw beginnings, through the dreaming childhood of Avebury and Stonehenge and the crude boyhood of ancient wars a...

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.... Do you think he will, Estelle?’ ‘Do not be so silly, Ulick; there are no goddesses now.’ ‘I heard M. de la Mede tell that pretty lady with the dia- ... ...!’ ‘You do not understand, brother. That was only flattery and compliment. Goddesses were only in the Greek mythol- ogy, and were all over long ago!’ ... ...is heart so sick with the contrast with the ‘paidling in the burns’ of his childhood, that he had no inclination to continue the attempt, either in th... ... very happily at play with some little brown children, as if the sports of childhood de- fied the curse of Babel, and a sailor from the tartane was 7...

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...been the despair of her mother and of the discreet dames to whom her first childhood had been committed, to say nothing of a Lady Abbess or two. Indee... ...ages, and Hal was beginning to recognise the moors he had known in earlier childhood, that they perceived a party on the old Roman road before them, w... ...his stone at the lion and the bear?’ ‘Lion and bear, child! ’Tis the three goddesses and Paris choosing the fairest to give the golden apple.’ ‘Methou... ... ‘Do I not?’ said Anne. ‘Have I not spent a night and day, the happiest my childhood knew, in your hut? Has it not been a dream of joy ever since?’ ‘A...

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...ose of the island of Andros, he told them that he had brought with him two goddesses, Per- suasion and Force; and they answered him that they had also... ...Per- suasion and Force; and they answered him that they had also two great goddesses, which prohibited them from giving him any money, Poverty and Imp... ... country, and much admired for his beauty, whose name was Lucumo. From his childhood he had been bred up with Aruns in his family and when now grown u... ...onal nickname, called Verrucosus, from a wart on his upper lip; and in his childhood they in like manner named him Ovicula, or The Lamb, on account of... ...eficient, and how very far from perfection in virtue. When he was past his childhood, he went once to a gram- mar-school, and asked the master for one... ...n of Cimon, exhibited against Alcibiades, for his impious mock- ery of the goddesses, Ceres and Proserpine. The people were highly exasperated and inc... ...ias, of the township of the Scambonidae, has committed a crime against the goddesses Ceres and Proserpine, by representing in derision the holy myster... ...nation than any of that age for feats of war, began at once, from his very childhood, to handle arms; and feeling that adventitious implements and art... ...and Aristomache the sister of Dion, with a son that had not yet passed his childhood, and threw them all to- gether into the sea alive, as related in ...

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...en who combine great intellec- tual powers with the charming simplicity of childhood, he openly expressed his surprise at the new and wonderful things... ...ft that is in you, like an existence in the physical world, passes through childhood and its maladies. Nature sweeps away sickly or deformed creatures... ...ut the poetry of the senses? Two months ago these women seemed to me to be goddesses guarded by dragons that no one dared approach; I was envying Lous... ...r Berenice came to release Lucien. Berenice, Coralie’s companion since her childhood, had a keen and subtle brain in her unwieldy frame. “Stay here,” ... ...ards as a safe- guard against rivals. A great love has much in common with childhood—a child’s heedless, careless, spendthrift ways, a child’s laughte...

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...4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE.........................

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.............................................. 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ ... ...ETCHES CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLI... ... THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ABOUT THE CLOSE OF MY SIXTH YEAR, sud... ...m such circumstances of luxury or aristocratic elegance as sur- rounded my childhood, that on all accounts I think it better to tell him, from the fir... ...even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the whole of my childhood, except for the few earliest weeks, in a rural seclusion. With th... ...ly because it lay through a succession of temples and sewers sacred to the goddesses Cloacina and Scavengerina. That of itself was not so extraordinar...

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...; Many are in each Region passing fair 155 As the noon Skie; more like to Goddesses Then Mortal Creatures, graceful and discreet, Expert in amo... ...t On points and questions fitting Moses Chair, Teaching not taught; the childhood shews the man, 220 As morning shews the day. Be famous then ... ...aviour born. From that time seldom have I ceas’d to eye Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth, Thy manhood last, though yet in private bred;...

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...y and fragmentary. In truth, De Quincey is drawing an idealized picture of childhood,—creating a type rather than re-creating a person; it is a study ... ... from De Quincey recently published.… The selections are The affliction of Childhood, Introduction to the World of Strife, A Meeting with Lamb, A Meet... ...ined that, if a man had become nervous from some gipsy predic- tion in his childhood, allocating to a particular moon now approaching some unknown dan... ...hering for a hundred and thirty years. The battle of Agincourt in Joanna’s childhood had reopened the wounds of France. Crécy and Poictiers, those wit... ...und with the Carlovingian princes. About six hundred years before Joanna’s childhood, Charlemagne was known to have hunted there. That, of itself, was... ...lton is known to have done, or Michael Angelo; you can die grandly, and as goddesses would die, were goddesses mortal. If any distant worlds (which ma...

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...edeem, With gratitude, respect, esteem; With that devotion we bestow, When goddesses appear below. While thus Cadenus entertains Vanessa in exalted st... ...f the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 102 Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to spea...

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...ams; living as our four-footed kindred do,— as mankind did in its innocent childhood; before sin, sorrow or morality itself had ever been thought of! ... ...ture in him, as if he had been born in the woods, and had run wild all his childhood, and were as yet but imperfectly domesticated. Life, even in our ... ...tificial warmth of hue. Thus it became a sin and shame to look at his nude goddesses. They had revealed themselves to his imagination, no doubt, with ... ... last,” said Donatello gloomily. “They have all vanished from me, since my childhood. Old T omaso will tell you that the air of Monte Beni is not so f... ...affection for the young Count, and were full of stories about his sportive childhood; how he had played among the little rustics, and been at once the... ...the theme— upon the blithesome effects of Donatello’s presence in his rosy childhood and budding youth. Their hovels had always glowed like sunshine w...

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...e hong The golden Apple, cause of all their wrong, For which the three faire Goddesses did striue: There also was the name of Nimrod strong, Of Alexan... ...at she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, With which she from her childhood had bene fed. For she at first was borne of hellish brood, And ...

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...r accused of anything worse than a tendency to corpulence. He emerged from childhood a simple, wholesome, round-eyed lad, with no suspicion that a les... ...ype in superhuman purity. When Phidias and Praxiteles had their statues of goddesses unveiled in the temples of the ;aEgean, don’t you suppose there w... ...iteles,” Miss Blanchard remarked, “had the advantage of believing in their goddesses. I insist on believing, for myself, that the pagan mythology is n... ..., I presume,” he went on; “a fanciful represen- tation of one of the pagan goddesses—a Diana, a Flora, a naiad or dryad? I often regret that our Ameri...

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...ness. Indeed there was a wonder- ful blending of the beauty of manhood and childhood about 45 Yo n g e the youth; and his demeanour was perfectly dec... ...et of Gobelin work which represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient... ...uiries into her walks at Bowstead, asking after the favourite nooks of his childhood, and directing her to the glades where grew the largest dewberrie...

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...loyment.” “Do you know the Mediterranean?” “I have sailed over it since my childhood.” “You know the best harbors?” “There are few ports that I could ... ...k for this key which she always kept, and which was only taken from her in childhood as a punishment? The young girl looked at Morrel. “What have I do... ... and sank back breathless and exhausted beneath the kisses of these marble goddesses, and the enchantment of his marvellous dream. Chapter 32 The Waki... ...ur charm- ing and poetical ideas prove well your descent from that race of goddesses who claim your country as their birthplace. Depend on my care to ... ...s it was a mere whim on his part, for he is falling, they say, into second childhood, but I love him for showing so much interest in you.” “How singul...

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... my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood.” “What do you say?” said the count; “900,000 francs? It is indee... ...Nothing is ever so firmly impressed on the mind as the memory of our early childhood, and with the exception of the two scenes I have just described t... ...s feet, admiring everything I saw with that unsophisticated inno- cence of childhood which throws a charm round objects insignifi- cant in themselves,... ...ncillors, and left with that dignified step which Virgil attributes to his goddesses.” Chapter 87 The Challenge. “THEN,” CONTINUED BEAUCHAMP, “I took ... ...ed by Puget,* the port with its brick quays, where they had both played in childhood, and it was with one accord that they stopped on the Cannebiere. ...

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...ngth of age survey, By breed increase not, nor by death decay. T wo sister goddesses possess the plain, The constant guardian of the woolly train; Lam... ...and one table fed. But when the softly stealing pace of time Crept on from childhood into youthful prime, To Samos’ isle she sent the wedded fair; Me ...

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...EY Y Y Y Y THE PEOPLE of Rome seem to have entertained for Pompey from his childhood, the same affection that Prometheus in the tragedy of Aeschylus e... ... perance, as to the pleasures of the body, was apparent in him in his very childhood, as he was with much difficulty incited to them, and always used ... ... been originally deficient either in body or mind; on the contrary, in his childhood, he had showed a happy and promising character enough. But a dis-... ...at the river Rhone within eight days. He had been an expert rider from his childhood; for it was usual with him to sit with his hands joined together ... ...they required, and for- swore the fact. And indeed he so little valued the goddesses, that he stayed but till the very festival of Proserpine, by whom... ... time in the city Marcus Otho, a person of fair extrac- tion, but from his childhood one of the few most debauched, voluptuous, and luxurious livers i...

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...solute ne- cessity of luxurious living, had been pressed upon her from her childhood. She had seen it and acknowledged it, and had told him with preco... ...ked, as he said it, as though he were asking her to take a place among the goddesses of Olympus, she was troubled as to her answer. ‘Oh, my Lord Duke,...

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...annot show himself over kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which c... ...les, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he sings ‘em over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a smock were a she angel, he so chants to the ...