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I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
David Copperfield 2007
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As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
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As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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_Ixions_; third, the Tragedy of character, e.g. _The Phthiotides_ and
Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911
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They are gods and goddesses feasting, and in happier moments we feign ourselves possible Ixions to be admitted to the celestial banquet.
From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858
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As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
David Copperfield 1850
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As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841
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Midases and Ixions, and all the colours of painting will be mixed together to produce one grand conflagration: _flammantia moenia mundi_.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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Ye awful waves of hell, ye gloomy palaces where Megaera and her sisters hold their court, far ever foes to the sun's light, amongst your Ixions and your Tantaluses, in the midst of so many incessant tortures, in these hideous recesses, what pain, what toil so great as those to which Venus condemns my love?
Psyche 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647
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