When "cut from love and faith," Science is no more than "some wild Pallas from the brain of Demons"-like minerva, who sprang all armed and full-grown from the brain of Jupiter.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
One of her schoolfellows, who knew her at the age of thirteen, confessed to me that it was impossible to imagine George Eliot as a baby; that it seemed as if she must have come into the world fully developed, like a second minerva.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
minerva Hall, also in Sketches by Boz, reveals "one of those public nuisances, a spoiled child," spoiled because his papa was too busy with public duties and his mamma with society duties to train him properly.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes