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    Ixion In Heaven
    Ixion In Heaven
    Ixion In Heaven
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    Ixion In Heaven

    By Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ixion In Heaven" by Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateJul 31, 2022
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      Ixion In Heaven - Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

      Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

      Ixion In Heaven

      EAN 8596547136408

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Titlepage

      PART I.

      PART II.

      PART I.

      Table of Contents

      An Errant King

      THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple rose in the centre of a small and verdant plain, surrounded on all sides by green and hanging woods.

      ‘Jove is my only friend,’ exclaimed a wanderer, as he muffled himself up in his mantle; ‘and were it not for the porch of his temple, this night, methinks, would complete the work of my loving wife and my dutiful subjects.’

      The thunder died away, the wind sank into silence, the rain ceased, and the parting clouds exhibited the glittering crescent of the young moon. A sonorous and majestic voice sounded from the skies:—

      ‘Who art thou that hast no other friend than Jove?’ ‘One whom all mankind unite in calling a wretch.’ ‘Art thou a philosopher?’

      ‘If philosophy be endurance. But for the rest, I was sometime a king, and am now a scatterling.’ ‘How do they call thee? ‘Ixion of Thessaly.’

      ‘Ixion of Thessaly! I thought he was a happy man. I heard that he was just married.’

      ‘Father of Gods and men! for I deem thee such, Thessaly is not Olympus. Conjugal felicity is only the portion of the immortals!’

      ‘Hem! What! was Dia jealous, which is common; or false, which is commoner; or both, which is commonest?’

      ‘It may be neither. We quarrelled about nothing. Where there is little sympathy, or too much, the splitting of a straw is plot enough for a domestic tragedy. I was careless, her friends stigmatised me as callous; she cold, her friends styled her magnanimous. Public opinion was all on her side, merely because I did not choose that the world should interfere between me and my wife. Dia took the world’s advice upon every point, and the world decided that she always acted rightly. However, life is life, either in a palace or a cave. I am glad you ordered it to leave off thundering.’

      ‘A cool dog this. And Dia left thee? ‘No; I left her.’ ‘What, craven?’

      ‘Not exactly. The truth is——-’tis a long story.

      I

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