Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | 2018-09-27 | Author:Aeschylus

CHORUS LEADER Aegisthus, I have no respect for one who acts all high and mighty in bad circumstances. You claim you meant to kill this man, and planned this pitiable ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Aristophanes

( Category: Dramas & Plays October 20,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Philip Smith [Smith, Philip]

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) The most popular American poet of the nineteenth century, Longfellow is well remembered for works such as “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha.” Two ...
( Category: Poetry October 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Theodor Kallifatides & Marlaine Delargy

* * * Other changes were also noticeable, for example, the relationship between the local population and the tourists. In the 1970s there was a certain warmth, a friendliness, which ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Adam Mickiewicz & Bill Johnston

Book VII: The Council Salutary advice from Bartek known as the Prussian – A soldierly contribution from Maciej the Baptist – A political contribution from Mr. Buchman – Jankiel’s call ...
( Category: Poetry October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John McElroy [McElroy, John]

CHAPTER XLV AUGUST—NEEDLES STUCK IN PUMPKIN SEEDS—SOME PHENOMENA OF STARVATION —RIOTING IN REMEMBERED LUXURIES "Illinoy," said tall, gaunt Jack North, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, to me, one ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Lucius Apuleius & William Adlington

THE FORTY-THIRD CHAPTER How Apuleius was found by his shadow. As wee passed by the way wee met with a tall souldier (for so his habite and countenance declared) who ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:Plato & Benjamin Jowett [Plato & Jowett, Benjamin]

* * * One more aspect of the Timaeus remains to be considered--the mythological or geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing that a few pages of one of Plato's ...
( Category: Philosophy August 19,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]

Fads and Public Opinion A FOREIGNER IS A man who laughs at everything except jokes. He is perfectly entitled to laugh at anything, so long as he realises, in a ...
( Category: United States August 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

53. Let us now look at the main point: for which one of them was the actual spot where they came to blows more convenient? Jurors, is that something that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-24 | Author:Miguel Cervantes [Cervantes, Miguel]

The Jealous Extremaduran Not many years ago a gentleman born of noble parents set out from a village in Extremadura, and like a second Prodigal Son went off through various ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-04 | Author:Aeschylus, Roberts, Deborah [Roberts, Deborah H.]

Children of Tethys with her many young, and of Ocean, who circles [150] the whole of the earth with unsleeping stream:11 look here and see the fetters that pin me ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature August 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-30 | Author:Sappho [Carson Annem]

96.7 “rosyfingered”: an adjective used habitually by Homer to designate the red look of Dawn. I think Sappho means to be startling, but I don't know how startling, when she ...
( Category: Poetry July 31,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Annas Julia]

1 Stoicism was noted for its precise distinctions of terminology; here Cicero couples this point with Antiochus’ claim, which will be prominent in books IV and V, that Stoic differences ...
( Category: Philosophy July 28,2018 )