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Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas De Quincey: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow |
 | | Levana was the Roman goddess that performed for the new - born infant the earliest office of ennobling kindness, - typical, by its mode, of that grandeur which belongs to man everywhere, and of that benignity in powers invisible which even in pagan worlds sometimes descends to sustain it. |
| | This is the explanation of Levana, and hence it has arisen that some people have understood by Levana the tutelary power that controls the education of the nursery. |
| | Therefore it is that Levana often communes with the powers that shake a man's heart: therefore it is that she dotes on grief. |
| www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/quincey-levana.html (1932 words) |
