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

    By Benjamin Disraeli

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Benjamin Disraeli

    Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and politician who twice served as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or “Tory democracy”. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the British Empire, and used military action to expand it, both of which were popular among British voters. Disraeli was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.

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      Ixion In Heaven - Benjamin Disraeli

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ixion In Heaven, by Benjamin Disraeli

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      Title: Ixion In Heaven

      Author: Benjamin Disraeli

      Release Date: December 3, 2006 [EBook #20009]

      Last Updated: November 4, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IXION IN HEAVEN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      IXION IN HEAVEN

      By Benjamin Disraeli

      ADVERTISEMENT

      'IXION, King of Thessaly, famous for its horses, married

           Dia, daughter of Deioneus, who, in consequence of his son-

           in-law's non-fulfilment of his engagements, stole away some

           of the monarch's steeds. Ixion concealed his resentment

           under the mask of friendship. He invited his father-in-law

           to a feast at Larissa, the capital of his kingdom; and when

           Deioneus arrived according to his appointment, he threw him

           into a pit which he had previously filled with burning

           coals. This treachery so irritated the neighbouring princes,

           that all of them refused to perform the usual ceremony, by

           which a man was then purified of murder, and Ixion was

           shunned and despised by all mankind. Jupiter had compassion

           upon him, carried him to Heaven, and introduced him to the

           Father of the Gods. Such a favour, which ought to have

           awakened gratitude in Ixion, only served to inflame his bad

           passions; he became enamoured of Juno, and attempted to

           seduce her. Juno was willing to gratify the passion of

           Ixion, though, according to others,' &c.—Classical

           Dictionary, art. 'Ixion.'

      Contents

      IXION IN HEAVEN

      PART I.

      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

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