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...Excerpt: SING, O GODDESS, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the coun...

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...University . The Iliad By Homer Translated by Samuel Butler BOOK I SING, O GODDESS, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills... ... as splendid by reason of this present insult. Hold, therefore, and obey .” “Goddess,” answered Achilles, “however angry a man may be, he must do as y... ... wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon. You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has m... ...Juno, Nep tune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds. It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred handed monst... ...the pair had thus laid their plans, they parted—Jove to his house, while the goddess quit ted the splendour of Olympus, and plunged into the depths o... ...able staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achæans. The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day... ...ey draw not their ships into the sea.” Ulysses knew the voice as that of the goddess: he flung his cloak from him and set off to run. His servant Eury... .... And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me—for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know... ...ading them forth to battle.” Thus she spoke, but Hector knew that it was the goddess, and at once broke up the assembly. The men flew to arms; all the...

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...ohnson “Cutting Taxes” 32 Jennifer Potter “Sip of Water” 34 Short Storis 36 Joel Harris “Disconnected” 37 Rebecca A. Shaw “Hope” 51 Susan Strohm “The Goddess of Bridgedale High” 54 James Pinkstone “An Ambulance for the Porcelain People” 57 Anthony Tresselt “Uncertain Reconciliation” 66...

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... which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana herself, gazing at her naked feet before her atte...

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...Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously IX. Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune and the Worship of Her, T ogether with an Introduction of s... ...n’s collections of pictures in En- gland, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fit- ting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding ... ...der the mountain they were about to climb. CHAPTER IX CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER, TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF SO... ...des. Thither in the ripeness of the year trooped the devotees of the sable goddess to perform sacrifice; and annually among them the beautiful Livia, ... ...ex- pect, what sane person can desire, perpetual good luck? For- tune, the goddess, and young Love, too, are divine in their mutability: and Fortune w... ... single instance by the spouse of the aforesaid eminent divinity—the Black Goddess of the golden fringes— men believe in her for ever after, behold he... ...ist on such reflections. Many of them, indeed, took the union of the Black Goddess and the Rosy Present for the composition of the very Arch-Fiend. So... ... angry to have her signal misinterpreted. Well, then, distinguished by the goddess in such a manner, we have it proved to us how she wished to favour:... ...as. Yesterday their bank presented matronly proportions. But an importuned goddess reduces the most voluminous to bare stitches within a few winks of ...

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...l to stay behind in the palace of his brave sire, nor Argus, helper of the goddess Athena; but they too were ready to be numbered in the host. (ll. 22... ...r whom I loosed my virgin zone first and last. For to me beyond others the goddess Eileithyia grudged abundant offspring. Alas for my folly! Not once,... ...nd his shoulders a purple mantle of double fold, the work of the Tritonian goddess, which Pallas had given him when she first laid the keel props of t... ...e with that hope. (ll. 768 773) Such then were the gifts of the Tritonian goddess Athena. And in his right hand Jason held a fardarting spear, which ... ...k hither measureless booty and maidens too. But the counsel of the baneful goddess Cypris was working out its accomplishment, who brought upon them so... ...ge ragged rocks and hurled them. For these dread monsters too, I ween, the goddess Hera, bride of Zeus, had nurtured to be a trial for Heracles. And t... ...; 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 ... .... In like manner the rest of the immortal blessed ones reverence the dread goddess.” (ll. 1103 1152) Thus he spake, and his words were welcome to Jas... ... exceeding old; this they cut down, to be the sacred image of the mountain goddess; and Argus smoothed it skilfully, and they set it upon that rugged ...

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... helped by the following list of the Greek and Latin names of the gods and goddesses who play important parts in the narrative. When the Greek names a... ...edge that his wrong should be avenged onAgamemnon and theAchaians. S ING, GODDESS, the wrath of Achilles Peleus’ son, the ruinous wrath that brought ... ...t on the tenth Achilles summoned the folk to assembly, for in his mind did goddess Hera of white arms put the thought, because she had pity on the Dan... ... his sheath, Athene came to him from heaven, sent forth of the white armed goddess Hera, whose heart loved both alike and had care for them. She stood... ...y his own haughtinesses shall he soon lose his life.” Then the bright eyed goddess Athene spake to him again: “I came from heaven to stay thine anger,... ...ceptred king to whom Zeus apportioneth glory. Though thou be strong, and a goddess mother bare thee, yet his is the greater place, for he is king over... ...ve bound him, even Hera and Poseidon and Pallas Athene. Then didst thou, O goddess, enter in and loose him from his bonds, having with speed summoned ... ...Sintian folk forthwith tend me for my fall.” He spake, and the white armed goddess Hera smiled, and smiling took the cup at her son’s hand. Then he po... ...wherewith he took his way amid the mail clad Achaians’ ships. Now went the goddess Dawn to high Olympus, foretell ing daylight to Zeus and all the im...

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...udence, Dulness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Ill man ners. The goddess herself had claws like a cat; her head, and ears, and voice resembl... ...mus, having thus delivered himself, stayed not for an answer, but left the goddess to her own resentment. Up she rose in a rage, and, as it is the for... ...erceive by that grateful smell which from thence reaches my nostrils.” The goddess and her train, having mounted the chariot, which was drawn by tame ... ..., whom an unknown father of mortal race begot by stolen embraces with this goddess. He was the darling of his mother above all her children, and she r... ...from the divine Bentley, Wotton’s dearest friend. “Brave Wotton,” said the goddess, “why do our troops stand idle here, to spend their present vigour ... ...s accoutred him, she vanished in a mist, and the hero perceived it was the goddess his mother. The destined hour of fate being now arrived, the fight ... ...and pens, which would all be too little to perform so immense a work. Say, goddess, that presidest over his tory, who it was that first advanced in t... ...roach; he rode among the enemy’s ranks, and bore down all before him. Say, goddess, whom he slew first and whom he slew last! First, Gondibert advance... ...as a lasting mark of hospitality be tween them. Virgil consented (for the goddess Diffidence came unseen, and cast a mist before his eyes), though hi...

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...he top of a rock. The shape is oval, and in the centre is the image of the goddess, the head and an arm wanting. She is represented, as usual, sitting... ...Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing! That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of... ...hetis’ godlike son Convened to council all the Grecian train; For much the goddess mourn’d her heroes slain. 12 The assembly seated, rising o’er the r... ...s’d; A sable cloud conceal’d her from the rest. He sees, and sudden to the goddess cries, Known by the flames that sparkle from her eyes: “Descends Mi... ...ons, and the gods obey.” To her Pelides:—“With regardful ear, ’Tis just, O goddess! I thy dictates hear. Hard as it is, my vengeance I suppress: Those... ...lue-eyed maid; Then in the sheath return’d the shining blade. 63 Pope The goddess swift to high Olympus flies, And joins the sacred senate of the ski... ... Thee, the first honours of the war adorn, Like gods in strength, and of a goddess born; Him, awful majesty exalts above The powers of earth, and scep... ...ars of anger and disdain, Thus loud lamented to the stormy main: “O parent goddess! since in early bloom Thy son must fall, by too severe a doom; Sure... ...he deep recesses of the main, Where aged Ocean holds his watery reign, The goddess-mother heard. The waves divide; And like a mist she rose above the ...

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...murmur, and the surges roar, The blameless hero from his wish’d for home A goddess guards in her enchanted dome; (Atlas her sire, to whose far piercin... ...n peaceful order stood Ulysses’ arms now long disused to blood. He led the goddess to the sovereign seat, Her feet supported with a stool of state (A ... ...y, And meditate my doom to crown their joy.” With tender pity touch’d, the goddess cried: “Soon may kind Heaven a sure relief provide, Soon may your s... ... receive, Worthy the air of Ithaca to give.” “Defer the promised boon (the goddess cries, 37 Pope Celestial azure brightening in her eyes), And let m... ...Secured the valves. There, wrapped in silent shade, Pensive, the rules the goddess gave he weigh’d; Stretch’d on the downy fleece, no rest he knows, A... ...e waters o’er his hands he shed, The royal suppliant to Minerva pray’d: “O goddess! who descending from the skies Vouchsafed thy presence to my wonder... ...e, and the rival train, thy voice withstand.” Indulgent to his prayer, the goddess took Sage Mentor’s form, and thus like Mentor spoke: “O prince, in ... ...s an ample store. While to the rival train the prince returns, The martial goddess with impatience burns; Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size, Wi... ...ng with his sloping wheels, Down sunk the sun behind the western hills The goddess shoved the vessel from the shores, And stow’d within its womb the n...

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...would enter too far into the recesses of that magnificent temple where our Goddess is enshrined, peep through the vast embroidered curtains indiscreet... ...ver the bricks and mortar rose pediments of statues, legs of urns, legs of goddesses, legs and bodies of goddesses, legs, bodies, and busts of goddess... ...sses, legs, bodies, and busts of goddesses. Finally, on the 13th December, goddesses complete. On the 14th they were painted marble-color; and the bas...

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...hough he was longing to return to his wife and country , was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry hi... ...s. It is an island covered with forest, in the very middle of the sea, and a goddess lives there, daughter of the magician Atlas, who looks after the ... ...an old friend of my father’s.” But in his heart he knew that it had been the goddess. The suitors then returned to their singing and dancing until the... ... spoke Minerva daughter of Jove, and Telemachus lost no time in doing as the goddess told him. He went moodily and found the suitors flaying goats and... ...a tioned her at the end of the harbour. Presently the crew came up, and the goddess spoke encour agingly to each of them. Furthermore she went to th... ... to do as I shall bid you. I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself vis ibly to me during yesterday’... ...tor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty. Then Stratius and Echephron ... ... should have run clean out of provisions and my men would have starved, if a goddess had not taken pity upon me and saved me in the person of Idothea,... ... , and went along by the sea side, praying heartily to heaven. Meanwhile the goddess fetched me up four seal skins from the bot tom of the sea, all o...

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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 ... ...chmond. “What stands out in my memory now is this idea, of a sort of woman goddess who was very lovely and kind and powerful and wonderful. That ruled... ...er or any mother or any particular woman at all. Far better to call it the goddess complex.” “The connexion is not perhaps immediately visible,” said ... ... 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... ...I realized that there could be living people in the world as lovely as any goddess…. She wasn’t in the least out of breath. “That was my first human l... ...off with one particular set and final person. I liked to dream of a blonde goddess in her own V enusberg one day, and the next I would be off over the... ...s encumbered with children, be- comes all too manifestly not the companion goddess….” Sir Richmond brooded over his sculls and thought. “Throughout my... ... 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...

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..., His smiles, The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger: And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it So like to him that got it, if thou ha... ...and, you have obscured With a swain’s wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, Most goddess like prank’d up: but that our feasts In every mess have folly and... ...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 ... ... wildly By us perform’d before. Most dearly welcome! And your fair princess,—goddess!—O, alas! I lost a couple, that ‘twixt heaven and earth Might thu...

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...e a matter of more weight; good Isis, I be- seech thee! IRAS: Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! for, as it is a heartbreaking to s... ... he assign d Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she In the habiliments of the goddess Isis That day appear d; and oft before gave audience, As tis repor... ... [Enter SCARUS.] SCARUS: Gods and goddesses, All the whole synod of them! DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: What s thy p...

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...by the seaside, it was suddenly changed into a he, and for this cause that goddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the... ...oth, purposing to put them to death; but being deterred from murder by the goddess V esta in a dream, enjoined them for their punishment the working a... ...cients called the dug or teat of any creature ruma, and there is a tutelar goddess of the rearing of children whom they still call Rumilia, in sacrifi... ...one moiety of his estate to be given to the wife, the other to fall to the goddess Ceres; and whoever cast off his wife, to make an atonement by sac- ... ...desert places. And this in particular gave occasion to the story about the goddess, namely, that Numa did not retire from human society out of any mel... ...course, and, admitted to celestial wedlock in the love and converse of the goddess Egeria, had attained to blessedness, 105 Plutarch’s Lives and to a... ...solemn talk imposed upon the crowd. In like manner Numa spoke of a certain goddess or moun- 110 V olume One tain nymph that was in love with him, and... ... the better part of us is transmitted; especially they were to worship the goddess Libitina, who presided over all the cer- emonies performed at buria... ...oor and ordinary fare; the guests seated, he be- gan to tell them that the goddess that consulted with him was then at that time come to him; when on ...

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...ou know he always says he is our Mentor. And I wish he would change into a goddess with a helmet and a shield, with an ugly face, and go off in a clou... .... 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- ... ...a Mede tell that pretty lady with the dia- mond butterfly that she was his goddess; so there are!’ ‘You do not understand, brother. That was only flat... ...!’ ‘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!’ ... ...was a cross old man,’ said Ulysse. T o which Estelle replied that he was a goddess; and Arthur very decidedly disclaimed either character, especially ...

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...y hearing? Disloyal! No: She’s punish’d for her truth, and undergoes, More goddess like than wife like, such assaults As would take in some virtue. ... ...yself for charity. [Exit.] BELARIUS: O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon’st In these two prin... ...night. ‘Faith, I’ll lie down and sleep. But, soft! no bedfellow!—O gods and goddesses! [Seeing the body of CLOTEN .] These flowers are like the pleas...

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... been previously. The blow had been struck, and he had borne it. His cruel goddess had shaken her wings and fled: and left him alone and friendless, b... ...royal Endymions were said to find favor with this virgin huntress; and, as goddesses have youth perpetual, this one believed to the day of her death t... ...ice so sweet as that of his beloved mistress, who had been sister, mother, goddess to him during his youth—goddess now no more, for he knew of her wea... ...h and chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they might be for a goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was...

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...I can but try, as well as the rest of them! The fellow who did that gazing goddess yonder only made an experiment. The other day, when I was looking a... ...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... ...cious of everything else. “By Jove!” he cried pre- cipitately, “it ‘s that goddess of the Villa Ludovisi!” Rowland in some confusion, did the honors a... ...least bit of an adventuress. Heaven knows what the daughter is.” “She ‘s a goddess!” cried Roderick. “Just so. She is all the more dangerous.” “Danger... ...ul of a world-wearied mortal had found its way into the blooming body of a goddess. “Where in the world has Miss Light been before she is twenty,” obs... ...n, her glance, her step, her dusky tresses, may have been seen before in a goddess, but never in a woman. And you may take this for truth, because I ‘... ..., 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... ...owland interposed, in charity. “Ah, our great American beauty! Not a pagan goddess— an American, Christian lady! Yes, I have had the pleasure of conve...

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...deed, but he also gets little or nothing by it. They who have made Venus a goddess have taken notice that her principal beauty was incorporeal and spi... ...t. Hippomenes, about to make trial after the rest, made his address to the goddess of love, imploring her assistance; and she, granting his re- quest,... ... luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum, nec amabile quidquam.” [“Goddess, still thou alone governest nature, nor without thee anything comes... ...means they charge the god of familiarity and good will, and the protecting goddesses of humanity and justice, with the vice of ingratitude and unthank... ...lacidumque petivit Conjugis infusus gremio per membra soporem.” [“The goddess spoke, and throwing round him her snowy arms in soft embraces, care... ...sit Quo tibi, diva, mei?” [“Dost thou seek causes from above? Why, goddess, has your confidence in me ceased?”—Virgil, Æneid, viii. 395.] nay,... ...em limit their affection to any one person whatever; as is evident in that goddess to whom are attrib- uted so many changes and so many lovers. But ’t... ...a porter.” Homer was fain to consent that Venus, so sweet and deli- cate a goddess as she was, should be wounded at the battle of 154 Essays: Book II... ...e to you, or what should I not write to you at this time? May the gods and goddesses lay a worse punishment upon me than I am every day tormented with...

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... air from inner fire, We saw stand bare of her celestial beam The glorious Goddess, and we dared desire. Thereat are shown reproachful eyes, and lips ... ...for its next breath: Her wily semblance nought of her denies; Seems it the Goddess runs, the Goddess hies, The generous Goddess yields. And she can a... ...ow them in nature wise as when Love speaks. With them is war; and well the Goddess knows What undermines the race who mount the rose; How the ripe mom... ...leasures pass them by: For death they live, in life they die. Her head the Goddess from them turns, As from grey mounds of ashes in bronze urns. She v... ...f incense myrrh, The woman’s marrow in some dear youth’s name, Then is the Goddess tenderness Maternal, and she has a sister’s tones Benign to soothe ... ...is implored. A smile, and he is up on godlike leaps Above, with his bright Goddess owned the adored. His tales of her declare she condescends; Can sha... ... tricks of evil fame, Elusive to allure, since he grew tame. Hence has the Goddess, Nature’s earliest Power, And greatest and most present, with her d... ...to the sacred mounts. A loftier Reason out of deeper founts Earth’s chosen Goddess bears: by none disowned While red blood runs to swell the pulse, s...