Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]
EXCURSION The downfall of the French school of poetry has of late been increasing in rapidity; its cold and artificial compositions have given way, like so many fantastic figures of ...
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Gothic & Romantic
April 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-21 | Author:Ra Yeshe Senge
CHAPTER FOURTEEN TO INDIA AND BACK Council of translators—To Nepal and India—Return through southern Tibet—Translation activities—Liberation of Darma Dodé, son of Marpa—Farewells to the Master Around the same time Ralo ...
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Religious
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio
6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
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Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Plutarch
45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...
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Rome
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Michael Grant
THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category:
Anthologies
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan [Lucan]
CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category:
Epic
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Carolinne White
ON THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE PAULA by Jerome (Letter 107 to Laeta) Laeta Laeta Laeta married Paula the elder’s son Toxotius and was the mother of little Paula. According to ...
( Category:
Women in History
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Diogenes Of Sinope [Dobbin, Robert]
126 On Self-Sufficiency [5] Just as a good actor should perform well any role the playwright assigns him, so a good man should play well whatever role fortune assigns him. ...
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Professionals & Academics
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar
4. The last stages 26. Meanwhile, Mithridates of Pergamum, a man of high standing at home, skilled and courageous in war, and a loyal and esteemed friend of Caesar’s, had ...
( Category:
Rome
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch
ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]
[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category:
Historiography
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Plato
He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
( Category:
Philosophers
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bede
Chapter 30: During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665] At the same time, the kings Sighere ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
The Entrance into Mexico Early next day we left Iztapalapa with a large escort of these great Caciques, and followed the causeway, which is eight yards wide and goes so ...
( Category:
Military
April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Sei Shonagon
The woman he gazes at in secret is bending forward, so that her hair falls away from her head and hangs perhaps six inches before her face. It glows there ...
( Category:
Asia
April 19,2020 )
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