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Show see the sensual hurt; he sees the mermaid's Egga o = head but not the dragon's tail, and thinks Compengatio he can cut off that which he would hav from that which he would not have. " Ho secret art thou who dwellest in the highes heavens in silence, O thou only great God sprinkling with an unwearied providenc certain penal blindnesses upon such as hav unbridled desires! The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable, of history, of law, of proverbs, of conversation. I finds a tongue in literature unawares. Thu the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind but having traditionallyascribed tohim man baseactions, they involuntarilymade amend to Reason by tying up the hands of so bad god. He is made as helpless as a king o England. Prometheus knows one secre which Jove must bargain for; Minerva, another. He cannot get his own thunders Minerva keeps the key of them « Of all the gods, I only know the key That ope the solid doorswithin whose vault His thunders sleep. 1 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |