ter with attention; it will teach you to estimate your present condition properly. It will shew you how insecure, how unstable your present resources are. It will point out to you those on which you may rely, with more permanent hope and better grounded expectation; but it will fail altogether in its purpose, if it do not open your heart to the important and just reproof directed to the unprofitable servant, who hid his lord's money in the earth.' "I remain, &c. &c. "MARY COURTNEY." It only remains for me to say, that this affectionate appeal, aided by the conduct of this exemplary woman, acted upon my mind with an influence which might almost be called magical. To resemble Miss Courtney, to do what Miss Courtney did, was the governing principle of every part of my conduct; and always disposed to extremes, I carried my assiduity to a pitch, that nothing less than her friendship would have tolerated. Victorious over myself, I now began to taste the recompense of my application. My drawings decorated Mrs. Delmy's dressing-room. I was called out with fond delight, to sing and play to her friends; and Mr. Delmy on tiptoe, his venerable face beaming with pride and pleasure, would listen to my idle prattle in French, with a native of that country, who was intimate in the family. No incitements were like these precious ones; my father's approbation accompanied them; he now began to look forward to his re-union with a child, who had been taught to hope, would satisfy his fondest wishes. AN ABSTRACT OF HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY.* JUPITER, the supreme deity of the heathen world. Juno, wife of Jupiter, and queen of heaven. Apollo, god of musick, poetry, and the sciences. Minerva, or Pallas, daughter of Jupiter, and goddess of wisdom. Mercury, the god of eloquence, and messenger of the gods. Eolus, god of the winds. Mars, god of war. Diana, goddess of hunting, chastity and marriage. Esculapius, god of physic. Venus, goddess of beauty, love and marriage. Cupid, son of Venus, and god of love. Saturn, god of time. Astræa, goddess of justice. Autumnus, god of fruits. Ate, goddess of revenge. Bapta, goddess of shame. Bellona, goddess of war, and sister to Mars. Agenoria, goddess of industry. Angerona, goddess of silence. * The editor of this work has revised and published TOOKE'S PANTHEON, so as to render it proper for the study of persons of every age, and of either sex. It is handsomely printed on good paper, and embellished with thirty engravings. X Ceres, goddess of agriculture. Collina, goddess of hills. Comus, god of laughter and mirth. Cybele, wife of the god Saturn, and mother of the earth. Discordia, the goddess of contention. Eurymone, an infernal deity who gnawed the dead to the bones, and was always grinding her teeth. Fama, or Fame, the goddess of report. Fortune, the goddess of happiness and misery; Harpocrates, the god of silence. Hebe, goddess of youth. Hymen, god of marriage. Janus, god of the year; he was said to be endowed with the knowledge of the past and the future. Lares, household gods, among the Romans; they were also called Penates. Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. Momus, god of raillery. Mors, goddess of death. Nox, the most ancient of all the deities. Pan, the god of shepherds. Pitho, goddess of eloquence. Pluto, god of hell. Proserpine, wife to Pluto, and queen of the in fernal regions. Plutus, god of riches. Pomona, goddess of fruits and autumn. Proteus, a sea-god, said to have the power of changing himself into any shape he pleased. Psyche, goddess of pleasure. Vacuna, goddess of idle persons. Vulcan, god of subterraneous fire, and husband of Venus, famed for bis deformity. Fates, three sisters, entrusted with the lives of mortals; their names were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. Furies, three sisters, armed with snakes, and lighted torches: their names were Alecto, Megæra and Tisiphone. Graces, three sisters, daughters of Jupiter and attendants upon Venus and the Muses; their names were Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne. Gorgons, three hideous women, who had but one eye in the middle of their foreheads; their names were Euryale, Medusa and Stheno. Muses, the nine daughters of Jupiter, and the goddess of memory; they presided over the sciences, and were called Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. Calliope, was the muse of eloquence, and heroic poetry; Clio, of history; Erato, of amorous poetry; Euterpe, of music; Melpomene, of tragedy; Polyhymnia, of rhetoric; Terpsichore, of dancing; Thalia, of comedy and lyric poetry; and Urania, of astronomy. Harpies, three monsters, with the faces of women, the bodies of vultures, and hands armed with claws: their names were Aelo, Ocypete, and Celœno. Hesperides, three sisters, who kept golden apples in a garden, guarded by a dragon; Hercules slew the dragon, and carried off the apples. Acco, an old woman, remarkable for talking to herself at the glass, and refusing what she most wished for. Acheron, a river in hell. Achilles, a Grecian, who signalized himself at the siege of Troy; and is said to have been dipped by his mother in the river Styx, which rendered him invulnerable in every part except his right heel, by which she held him. Actæon, a famous hunter, changed by Diana into a stag, for disturbing her while bathing. Adonis, a youth said to be extremely beautiful, and beloved by Venus. acus, one of the judges of hell. Egis, the shield of Minerva, formerly one of the Gorgons, whom Pallas killed, and made that use of her skin. Ambrosia, the food of gods. Ægeria, a beautiful nymph, worshipped by the Romans. Arachne, a woman turned into a spider, for contending with Minerva at spinning. Vesta, goddess of fire. Morpheus, god of dreams. Argus, a man said to have had an hundred eyes; changed by Juno into a peacock. Atalanta, a woman remarkable for her swift running. Atlas, the son of Jupiter, said to have supported the heavens on his shoulders; afterwards turned into a mountain. Avernus, a lake on the borders of hell. Briareus, a giant, said to have had fifty heads, and one hundred hands. |