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Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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beauty which is superior to the delicacy of femalecharms and does not need them. She is called the reigning, thelarge-eyed, the white-armed; epithets which tend to inspire us withadmiration rather than love. It is not the soft and tender eye thatgraces her image; it is greatness and majesty commanding aweand veneration; and of all the charms which constitute the reigningqueen of heaven, poetry celebrates none but the powerful arm. Andindeed, Hera acts a part in nearly all the violent events in heaven andon earth. The raging elements in which the whole train of human passions isbut a copy in miniature, are personated in her; for the violence of theelements is chiefly displayed in the lower atmosphere. Here they comein collision and interfere with each other ; here they rob, and spoil,and breathe revenge ; the rock groans in the furious sea; and underthe blast of the storm the billows howl; here is a perpetual round offormation and destruction;—here is the theatre of insurrection and
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HERA OR JUNO. 138 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. war ; the seat of wrath, and mourning, and misery: here must Hecubapull out her grey hairs, and Trey become a prey to the flames. But above the atmosphere, in the pure ether, every thing is quiet,permanent, and regular;—there, the celestial globes complete theircourses undisturbed, and nothing interrupts the music of the spheres ;—the top of high Olympos rises above the clouds into the still ether, andthither imagination transfers the abodes of the blessed immortals, who,exempt from care and pain, sip the sweet nectar, while charmed withthe sound of Apollos lyre In this manner, Fancy always unites the human form of her deitieswith the heavenly archetype. The swan in the bosom of I eda, as theblue ether surrounds the earth ; and the ether opens again to show theruler of Olympos with his ambrosial locks, holding the nectar cup inhis hand. Hera surrounds the globe with a transparent mist, which,pierced by the glittering rays of the sun,

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