This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ... wKjhouf a centinel, for in that region it is impossible that wakefulness should ever be maintained: jileep hinyjelf reposes upon a downy couch, the covering of which is black: a heavy weight, seems dd press down'Tiis eyelids, and his head, nodding and oppressed, alternately falls on one side and the other r he is surrounded with myriads of Dreams, his offspring, whose task it is to protect and prolong the repose of their father: the chief of these is Mornhaus. who has the faculty of assuming the airaBn of every mortal that lives, or that ever hlBWved, Icelus, who presents to monarchs in their sleep the shape of beast, or bird, or any living thing, and Phantasus, who takes the appearance of inanimate substances, a rock, a palace, a forest, or a sea. Discord is another of the children of Night; to whom Homerw ascribes this peculiarity, that T Mm. i. 552. a 2, 440. though at first she is but a dwarf, yet being nourished, she so improves in bigness, that while she walks along on the earth, her head touches the very heavens: it was the Goddess Discord that, at the nuptials of Thetis, honoured the festival, at which all the deities attended, with the gift of a golden apple, on which was written, "Let it be presented to the fairest: " Juno, Minerva and Venus immediately advanced their pretensions; and as the Gods were unwilling to interfere in their contention, Paris, the shepherd-son of king Priam, was appointed umpire: the Goddesses appeared naked before him, that the beauty of their proportions might be fully displayed: each of them offered a bribe: Juno promised to reward his favour with emgifef Minerva engaged to make him the grcateskfftf military heroes, and Venus to bestow upon him in marriage the most beautiful woman on...