A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so
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Aeneas and Briseis are rumored to be the children of the goddess Venus. The rumors started when their father, Anchises, returned from Phrygia with two exquisitely beautiful children. Even the Greeks have heard that Prince Anchises of Troy was Venus’s lover and she bore him a son and a daughter. What fuels these rumors is the fact that Anchises expects his children to offer prayers and sacrifices to Venus every night before bed.
“... I revere you! I esteem and admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.”
― Evelina
― Evelina
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“One rule for the lion and ox is oppression.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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