Ixions

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

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.

XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People 1917

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

_Ixions_; third, the Tragedy of character, e.g. _The Phthiotides_ and

Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

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

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

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

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

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